Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pigeons broke into journalism when the great 1923 earthquake turned Tokyo into a shambles, forced editors to rely on a small signal-corps flock. The birds soon earned the title "Hato-san."* As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds to rush negatives from inundated suburbs...
...Milkman. He has nice aver age features, stands a nice average height, speaks nice average American. In a group he resembles almost anybody he happens to be standing next to; by himself he has a vague, muzzy look, as though instead of being born he had been sent by Wirephoto. His comedy is the comedy of the hopelessly normal, mass-produced joe in the hopelessly insane, mass-produced situation. In six years and 14 pictures (Mr. Roberts, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), he has become a master of the vacant take, the eloquent huh, the rare, precise grimace...
...receive more than 142,000 printed words an hour. A staff of 28 copy deskmen routed this material to writers and editors all through the night; a force of reference librarians dug out background material. At each candidate's election-night headquarters, TIME had its own special wirephoto arrangements to transmit pictures...