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September 1942. Continuing our backstage tour of the New York Times. "Newsroom. Copy readers at the telegraph desk, which handles all dispatches from the U.S. outside New York City. Man wears hat because of draught." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
... not too many years after this picture was taken, WQXR's hourly news began with: *melodious chime* "Every hour on the hour, WQXR brings you the latest news bulletins, prepared and edited in the news room of The New York Times."
And there it is.
This technology — teletypes, copy paper, glue pots, spikes, blue pens, and the teletypes that were featured a day or so ago — lasted until the mid-'70s. The paper where I got my first newspaper job in 1972 was put out just as this one was, hot type, upright Remingtons, and all.
is the PRESS pass on that guy's hat.
I notice they are all wearing glasses.
The man closest to the camera seems sensitive to the lighting: he not only has a piece of paper added to his visor but he seems to have tied a string to the lampshade to tilt it away from him. It can't have been easy working at such close quarters, and you take relief where you can find it.
The real thing, with vintage mucilage pots and scissors. Looks like they were O.K. with spindling (and mutilating) too.
I hope, for the sake of reputation of newsmen everywhere, that the half-full glass in the foreground is whiskey.
Were they some wartime safety thing in case the Times was bombed?
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