Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
Around the World? The Times has been developing its facsimile since 1935, tried a similar long-distance experiment in 1945, when it used A.P. Wirephoto apparatus to transmit an edition to San Francisco for two months during the United Nations Charter conference. But the equipment at that time could not transmit photographic cuts effectively, and it took 34 minutes to send each page, limiting the Times to a four-page edition. Last week on equipment of its own subsidiary, the Times Facsimile Corporation, the Times's transmission produced an image four times as detailed. It took only two minutes...
...there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever get my picture?" he asked. "Ah never been in New York." The Big Money. To Snead, golf is strictly business. For relaxation he prefers hunting and fishing (he caught the world record bonefish, a 15-pounder, off Bimini...
...hook & ladder fire truck (see cut). "Firemen," said the News caption, "were called out when observers thought frankly they were seeing a stalled flying saucer." But the dozing Detroit A.P. bureau didn't read the fine print, missed the gag and sent out the picture over its wirephoto circuits as an authentic shot. Later, red-faced A.P. flashed its clients: "A kill is mandatory. Make certain the picture is not published." As a substitute, it sent out a picture of a real sunflower-only 14 feet high...
...aside for press rooms. Flanking and in back of the speaker's platform, where the main press gallery is, 30 noiseless teletype machines will carry running stories as fast as they come from reporters' typewriters. Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, convention headquarters, is another big press room. This, plus the hall's equipment, will enable reporters to file 500,000 words of wire copy an hour. As double insurance, many newspapers have put in their own teletype...