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...tinker with anything if I can help it," says Boston's William W. Garth Jr., an M.I.T.-trained entrepreneur who likes to think up new products in printing technology and hire engineers to build them. In 1967 he observed that while large city newspapers had the money to invest in modern phototypesetting machines that cost roughly $30,000 each, smaller daily and weekly papers were still struggling with old-fashioned Linotype machines that were four tunes slower and far costlier to operate. So he instructed the engineers at his Compugraphic Corp. to develop a small, stripped-down phototypesetting machine...
Unlike in past years, the Yankee conference winner was not selected to the tournament. Rhode Island, which copped the Yankee crown, did not have as good an overall record as New Hampshire, so the selection committee, headed by Northeastern coach John "Tinker" connelly, decided to bring the Wildcats into the tourney...
PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK...
...pattern as predictable as a wildlife calendar, this Annie Dillard, the sensitive young woman with folded hands on the dust jacket, who looks out of her cottage window on nature and, sure enough, starting right on schedule with January, records the seasons as they come and go at Tinker Creek in Virginia. After the obligatory prologue resolving to "cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity," pace Thoreau, she introduces her obligatory cat and a goldfish named Ellery Channing. Then onto your feet. In "the long slant of light that means good walking," she points out the sights: the creek...
...broken by magic. In Pitcher's Feathered Bird and Brother Gaily, cleverness and sharp practice can outwit the Devil, even the keeper of heaven's gate. Above all, the tales are sweaty with human nature. Time and again, the message seems to be: "Don't tinker with the order of things." Yet this message is repeatedly mocked by the irrepressible truth that man is an incurable tinkerer...