Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times - containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast...
...paper was held up because a motorcycle messenger, rushing the wire-photos to the printers in Richmond, Calif., was arrested for speeding - and spent part of the night in jail. There have been com- petitive squawks: the San Francisco Chronicle protested the Times's use of A.P. wirephoto for the Times's private benefit. Facsimile also has posed a leading question: what good is an expensive local A.P. franchise if other publishers with A.P. news can muscle in from afar? (While making up its mind about these issues, the A.P. let the Times go ahead with its experiment...
...wirephoto which appeared on the front page of almost every U.S. newspaper, the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen did not look like a thing of beauty. Its squat towers, like two massive beer mugs, looked typically Teutonic. The picture, taken on a grey day, showed the grey rubble of war in the foreground. But the bridge was intact, and therein lay its exquisite beauty. Every American could see in it an imminent promise of victory in Europe...
Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize. But Cowan was far from happy. Editors and fellow reporters showered him with congratulations. Said Cowan: "I wish I hadn't been there...
...special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...