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...letters cover his youth as a journeyman printer in New Orleans with his brother Jeff, his tour of duty in Washington as clerk in the Treasury and the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department and his stint as a volunteer male nurse in the gruesome military hospitals of the Civil War. Leaving his clerk's desk in the afternoon, "Loving Old Walt" (as he liked to sign himself) checked in at one of the huge whitewashed dressing stations near the capital. It is easy to raise a coarse snigger at the ambiguity of Whitman's motives for playing...
...appearance of a new white address label on their copies. This is a small outward sign that a new electronic-tape subscription processing system, developed at TIME'S subscription-service division in Chicago, has gone into operation. The tape is geared in with a new highspeed label printer (131,000 an hour) that provides greater legibility and also shows readers when their sub scriptions expire. Month and year of expiration are now printed on the first line of the strip...
...Road. By a tricky exercise in genealogy, the Post traces its ancestry all the way back to Benjamin Franklin. In 1728, then a 22-year-old Philadelphia printer, Franklin told a fellow printer named Webb that he intended to start a periodical. Webb liked the idea so well that he stole it. But nine months later, after achieving a circulation of 90, the Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette was sold to Franklin, who shortened the title to the Pennsylvania Gazette and set the weekly on the road to renown...
Avant Gardes--the company issuing the etchings--destroyed the printer's plate after making only 1000 copies in an effort to turn the etchings into "real collectors' items." The students involved in the company estimate that all the cards will be sold by this weekend. Several local bookstores, newsstands, and photographic stores are carrying the prints...
Naroyan (250 pp.; Viking; $3.95), is a very funny book that generates the driest kind of laughter about man, that figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains...