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...machines send out the finished product: copy to TIME'S printers in Chicago.† Thump, thump, thump, a telegraph machine starts printing on a continuous roll of paper: PASADENA, CALIF. TIME PTY ANSWER YOUR QUERY EBENEZER SMITH'S MIDDLE NAME NOT MAITLAND BUT MORTIMER...
...press deadline approaches, the doors of the teletype rooms get left open, the thumping gets louder. A United Press machine, pounding out scores of the amateur golf championship, suddenly falls silent. Ding ding, ding, ding ding, rings a bell and the machine begins to thump again: BULLETIN PARIS-THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES TONIGHT UNEXPECTEDLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN THE CABINET OF PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE...
...Thump, thump, the machine resumes its golf scores, an attendant tears off the bulletin and rushes it to an M. E. The M. E. flips a switch for the Foreign News editor...
Ding, ding, ding, rings the bell. Thump, thump, thump, starts the machine: PARIS-PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE AND HIS CABINET DROVE THIS EVENING IN A POURING RAIN TO THE ELYSEE PALACE TO PRESENT THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO PRESIDENT...
...become a concert pianist one must thump piano keys five hours a day for at least ten years. To become even a fair-to-middling amateur requires a great deal of patient practice. Inventive minds have long sought painless substitutes for the drudgery involved in learning how to play the piano. Short-cut systems and gadgets of recent years have included Lee Roberts' (Smiles) sliding rule, on which colored dots indicate what notes to play in a given situation; charts distributed by NBC on which chords are indicated by numbers...