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...Fred Kreiger, band director, and also editor, printer and advertising salesman of the Boise City News, had had a hard day at the print shop. He got to bed after midnight. Fred heard the drone of a plane, a whistle, a crash, an explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
Bruce Rogers does not like to write. He literally spoke Paragraphs on Printing to a colleague, Printer James Hendrickson. The result is 208 pages of notes, sometimes almost essays, on printing theory, technique and history; on book esthetics, paper and binding; even, briefly, on relations with his clients. Example: "There are times when the designer feels that his work is in danger of being spoiled by others. ... He will find, if he remains calm and reasonable (and does not take himself too seriously), that in most instances he will emerge with a large part of his work untouched...
Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
...large, moon-faced Virginian, 56 years old. Unschooled (sixth grade), he learned about printing by working for a printer in Scranton, got a working knowledge of make-up in a Connecticut advertising agency. He even studied at a Better Vision Institute. After writing for printing trade publications, he got a job at New York University teaching typography on a commission basis (his pay: one-third of the tuition his students paid). In ten years Farrar upped enrollment from...
...TIME's tired printer slipped, misread Lo as Los and obtiene as obtiente...