Word: sorrento
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold type" replaced thelabor-intensive "hot type" process, Sorrentobecame the only night-time employee retained byThe Crimson. Sorrento "pasted up" the pages until1986, when the building introduced a computersystem which sent articles directly from thenewsroom computers onto film. (See technologystory, page...
...Some of Sorrento's best memories are from theold days, when executives took advantage of thestringent deadlines mandated by old technology topull pranks on novice writers...
...think the best hoax of all was the one weplayed on Mike Barrett ['70] that [UniversityPresident Nathan M.] Pusey ['28] was going to besecretary of defense," Sorrento says...
According to Sorrento, news executives,including "[former Crimson President] Bo Jones '68and his crowd," had sent the story to the AP as ajoke and then asked the news organization to sendit directly back to them...
...time, stories had to be finished by12:30 a.m. to be laid out on the page. WhenBarrett ran downstairs with the story just a fewminutes too late, Sorrento told him the storycould not go in the paper...