Word: saylor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Record died, Guildsman Evans took his idea to Harry Saylor, who had been the Record's editor. Saylor was enthusiastic...
...Dave Stern's New Dealing Philadelphia Record and Camden (NJ.) Courier-Post, a handful of loyal executives volunteered to put out all three papers. This week the 33-day-old strike was still on, but Stern's papers had not missed an edition. Said Record Editor Harry Saylor: "It was tough at first but it's getting to be pretty easy to do. Any newspaper in the country could...
...newsmen knew, the job was not the cinch that Editor Saylor made it out. At the Record, where 435 Guildsmen were out, a dozen men were putting out four regular editions. In Camden half as many put out both the morning Post and evening Courier, working staggered shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Before the strike the job had kept 70 people busy. The papers used plenty of wire association copy, covered big local stories by telephone...
...Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired. We're getting as much sleep as we always did. We're just giving up our spare time." Shrewd Dave Stern, first publisher to sign a Guild contract (TIME, Nov. 18), was far from ready to dicker on Guild terms...
...PAUL E. SAYLOR Los Angeles...