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Sorrento--like all Crimson editors known by his initials, PRS--began his Crimson tenure in the days of molten lead "slugs" of letters. PRS, along with 15 press operators, braved the lead fumes and scorching heat in the basement of 14 Plympton to keep the presses running...
...annual payroll at Mueller is $14 million, and the money is earned. Tour this plant, and you get a reminder of what hard labor is. There is no easy way to forge a 500-lb. fire hydrant out of molten railroad tracks. It's hot, loud, dirty, physical work. In an eight-hour shift that begins at 7, you get two 10-minute breaks and a 15-minute lunch...
...almost too perfect. The volcanic mayor of the new and improved New York City was on his way to speak at Our Lady of Pompeii church. That's Pompeii as in the city buried under the molten lava of Mount Vesuvius. What if Rudy Giuliani, in the middle of his big civility campaign, blew his top as the gathering of seniors digested their lunch of franks and beans...
Once a building of typewriters and molten lead slugs, The Crimson today is filled with computers and high-resolution film, allowing a level of design, clarity of picture, and versatility of media unprecedented in the paper's 125 year history...
Until 1970, Sorrento recalls, The Crimson relied on a "hot type" printing process in which molten lead was cast into "slugs" of lead letters and thrown onto a rack of type. Lead fumes and heat scorched the basement of the building while 15 press operators kept the presses running...