Word: printer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CALIFORNIA IN THE FIFTIES-Introduction and Explanatory Text by Douglas S. Watson-John Howell: San Francisco ($10 to $150). Rare collection of 50 early lithographs (1855-1861) of California, beautifully reproduced in a limited edition (1,000 copies). Collectors should jump at it. Famed U. S. Printer Edwin Grabhorn supervised the book's typography, design...
...five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska's delegate in Congress. During the War he served...
...Printer's ink in his soul "Manny" Wolfe drifted west where be enrolled in the University of California (Berkelrey)...english scholar and backstage workers for college plays . . . who left Chaucer after graduation in '27 for such things as traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...
With the contracts for printing, bookbinding, and engraving signed, the Red Book is definitely taking shape. Several new innovations have been proposed by the printer, but no definite action has yet been taken by the department heads...
...Kansas' budget; 2) makes nickel bets on University of Kansas football games. Last week a shrewd publicity stroke added one more fact to the Landon Legend. Discovering that his 10,000 Happy New Year cards were so large that they required 1½? stamps, Governor Landon had the printer shave them down to if size, thereby deprived the U. S. Government of $50 in postage...