Word: wirephoto
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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...
...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...