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...last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented...
Among the awards made during the six-day ceremony, one went to Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, who gratefully accepted a citation for his paper's "typography and makeup ... distinction . . . high selectivity of material for intelligent readers who desire urbane writing and unusual treatment . . . for consistently maintaining departments of nationally recognized superiority conducted by commentators of extraordinary discernment...
This year's Hanging Committee, who tried hard to remain anonymous, were Dame Laura Knight's husband, Professor Harold Knight, who accepted three of his own portraits, including one of Laurence Olivier as Romeo; Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick, who accepted a model of his own giant statue of the Earl of Willingdon; Alfred J. Munnings, who accepted his own portrait of the Master of the Essex Union and five others. Their only pay for their three-month job was a daily lunch at Burlington House. Academicians were permitted to submit six pictures, outsiders three...
...knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected...
Robert Drysdale '36 will act as head usher, assisted by James Kilbreth '36, Raymond Reid '36, Charles Kessler '37, Ross Staples '37, Albert Stickey '38, and Martin Schwartz '38. Tickets are to sell for $2 couple or $1.50 stag. Duke Oliver and his band will hold forth between...