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The guys in the composing room just went nuts — relatively speaking.

An operator in Times Square telephoned the composing room in Los Angeles to begin transmission.

Bowlmor Times Square's front door leads to bowling alleys in the former newsroom and composing room.

In the language of the composing room, a logotype is not a graphic trademark but a single piece of type containing a whole word.

Desk chiefs are still called slots, recalling the days when they functioned as slots through which raw stories were sent to copy readers and edited stories were dispatched to the composing room.

But her lucidly narrative pictures of the newsroom, composing room, press room, reel room and mail room bring the exertions of that day so vividly to life you can almost smell the sweat.

So we turned for help to the Intertype Company, the manufacturers of much of the equipment in our fourth-floor composing room at 229 West 43rd Street, including the line-casting machines known generically as Linotypes.

" If you feel the need to do so, you should probably take your cue from Carl Schlesinger, a Linotype operator and the chief chronicler of The Times's composing room, who pronounced it, "AY-tan SHRID-lu.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning series, based on a classified government history of the Vietnam War, was produced under such a veil of secrecy that a special mini-composing room was built on the ninth floor of the headquarters at 229 West 43rd Street.

Dashing to magistrates' courts to collect reporters' copy and running subedited stories to the composing room.

As a journeyman printer, Dargie learned all the operations and jobs in the composing room. He was transferred to the editorial department as a reporter for the Bulletin.

The original 13th floor, which was the top floor, had a ceiling of and contained the composing room and two other rooms, allowing the printers access to more natural light. There were two large skylights above the composing room. The present building's roof contains a wooden water tower, elevator penthouses, a dormer for the stairs, and mechanical equipment. Originally, the building was served by three elevators and a staircase on the south side of the building.

He walked into the Examiners composing room from off the street and lifted the Black Dahlia story proofs off the spikes and walked out. The Daily News city desk then rewrote the Examiner’s stories. After three days of stealing Examiner copy, Ringer walked into the composing room on the fourth day for a fresh batch of Black Dahlia stories. As he was about to grab a handful of proofs from the spike, someone from behind grabbed his shoulder.

Floor utilization in the new building was similar to that in the old building: the composing room was in the 13th floor, the building's highest, while the editorial offices and city rooms were on the 12th floor.

In 1967, they bought The Davis Enterprise. Foy McNaughton joined the family business in 1973. His first job was in the composing room at the Mountain Democrat. Later that year, he moved to The Davis Enterprise pressroom.

A native of Galesburg, Illinois, Alva Fleharty first worked for the Omaha Bee then became foreman of the composing room at the Salt Lake Tribune before moving to Boise in 1901 to manage the composing room and telegraph office at the Idaho Statesman. He worked for the Statesman over two years, but in 1903 when the West Side Index in Newman, California, was for sale Alva and Maude (Chandler) Fleharty purchased the Index and moved to California. At the time, the Flehartys had lived in the Alva Fleharty House less than one year. They sold the house to W.G.M. Allen in 1903.

The Composing Room employed advanced type-setting methods that boasted quick turnarounds and high-quality work for high-circulation magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House and Garden. The Composing Room worked directly with font foundries like Linotype and encouraged ligatures to be created for bad letter combinations. It was the first typography house to be able to produce a range of font sizes (5-144pt) at all times; a proofing press for transparencies; and the first to install the All-Purpose-Linotype (APL) machines. In 1934, the type shop created their own magazine, called PM (later A-D magazine) with co- editor Percy Seitlin for art directors and production people.

The name "double truck" comes from the days when the heavy forms for newspaper pages (the metal version of each page), largely filled with lead type, were rolled around the composing room floor on heavy carts called trucks. Two pages for one project meant a double truck.

Della Femina was born into a working- class family in Coney Island, Brooklyn. His father, Michael, was a composing room employee for The New York Times. Della Femina graduated from Lafayette High School and attended one year of night school at Brooklyn College.Della Femina, Jerry, (1978).

Parkinson had previously been foreman printer on the North Australian but became the senior partner at The Queensland Times. 'The Parkinsons maintained direct representation in the partnership from 1861 till the PNQ merger and direct employment links till 1976.' Alfred John Stephenson (1846–1914) had experience as a composing room employee.

The couple moved back to New York in 1920, where Leslie was employed by the McGraw Hill Company as the first industrial doctor in the city. At McGraw Hill, he met Sol Cantor, a printer for the Carey Printing Company. The men became business partners, forming The Composing Room, Inc. in 1927.

A local schoolteacher boarded at their home, and Lucius benefited from the adult company. Theron Haight, editor of The Waukesha Freeman, gave Lucius his start in the publishing industry. At age 12 he was set to menial tasks, and eventually learned to set type. This skill brought him to the composing room of The Milwaukee Sentinel in 1871.

Bird said he was surprised at the gesture as although he was finishing in the composing room, he was still intending to work at the newspaper in a less physically demanding role.Mr. J.T.S. Bird, The Morning Bulletin, 1 May 1909. Retrieved 21 February 2017. Following the death of his wife in February 1918,Death of Mrs.

J.T.S. Bird, The Brisbane Courier, 20 February 1918. Retrieved 21 February 2017. Bird decided to leave Rockhampton to reside in Brisbane, ending a 55-year association with The Morning Bulletin. Upon his departure from The Morning Bulletin, the employees of the newspaper gathered in the composing room to make speeches, and farewell gift presentations to Bird.

However, Zverev, still upset over Rachmaninoff's request for a separate composing room, did not allow them to play together, so at the concert Rachmaninoff ended up conducting his choral work Deus Meus (1890) instead. The Rhapsody received its first performance after he graduated, on October 29, 1891, played by Rachmaninoff and Josef Lhévinne at the Conservatory.

Printing operations occupied the lower floors to the sixth with the bindery on the fifth, press room on the sixth and composing room on the seventh floor. The ninth through 15th floors were rented out. Pulp publisher Martin Goodman was based here by 1939. In that year, Goodman started up Timely Comics, Marvel Comics’ Golden Age common name.

This was a Presbyterian family newspaper of which his father had become editor. He also had experience as the foreman of the composing room at The North and West, Minneapolis (1892). Faris was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1898. His pastoral duties included a church in Mt. Carmel, Illinois (1898–1903) and Markham Memorial Church, St. Louis, Missouri (1903–1907).

Upon buying the paper, Childs completely changed its policy and methods. He changed the editorial policy to the Loyalist (Union) line, raised advertising rates, and doubled the cover price to two cents. After an initial drop, circulation rebounded and the paper resumed profitability. Childs was closely involved in all operations of the paper, from the press room to the composing room.

The first publication of The Courier was on November 10, 1836. Composing room workers unionized as part of the International Typographical Union, Local 260 in 1890 and lasted till 1981. The newspaper was known as the Republican Courier from 1945 to 1975. At one point in its history, Findlay had 11 local newspapers, but only The Courier is in circulation today.

He learned the printing trade and reported for the Ottawa Free Press.Acquired by the Ottawa Journal in 1919. In 1900, MacBride went to Brantford to play with its lacrosse team until 1903. From 1904 to 1905, he worked in the composing room of the Winnipeg Free Press, and in 1908 he returned to Brantford to set up a printing company there.

In 1882, Lamade became the ad compositor and assistant composing room foreman for the Daily Sun and Banner, and that same year, Grit began as the paper's Saturday edition, typeset by Lamade. He left the Daily Sun in 1884 to launch the weekly Times as a daily, but finances and the health of the owner led the Times to cease publication.

She arrived for her first day of work the next morning wearing a pantsuit and paraded through the press room, the composing room, and the news room before heading to her office. She then called a meeting of department heads to announce an official change in the dress code. The next day, 29 of the 45 women working for the newspaper arrived to work in pantsuits.

Advertisements indicated that there were a 75-seat "Assembly Hall" and 350-seat "Assembly Room" available for rent. The 11th floor originally contained the editorial department of the Evening World, and a two-bedroom apartment used during "special occasions". The 12th story was used as a composing room and contained galleries for proofreaders and visitors. There was also a night editors' department on the 12th floor.

The building has been altered several times since its construction. New space for offices, a composing room, a press room, an offset printing room, and a bindery room have been added over the 100+ years in which the company has operated. At its peak the company took up nearly the entire block and employed 70 people, making it one of the largest printing companies in the state.

However, Ortie McManigal testified that before their arrest, McNamara had told him that he had gone into the Times building – he was challenged twice, but each time passed by saying he was on his way to the composing room – went into the basement and wrenched off a gas valve, to maximize the destruction."M'Manigal repeats boast of M'Namara," N.Y. Times, 15 Nov. 1912, p.4.

The composing room, editorial and advertising offices were moved to the second floor. The job printing department was housed on the first floor. The basement area was used for storage, including a fireproof vault to store bound copies of local newspapers, some dating back as far as 1840. Amenities were impressive, a ladies rest room, tiled toilets, ample natural skylighting, a marble stairway and attractive decor.

Roy Cole (1932 - 2012) was a type designer. His introduction to type began at the age of fourteen with an apprenticeship in the composing room of a printers in Idle, Bradford. This was followed by several years working as a journeyman compositor in the UK and in Switzerland. In 1960 he attended the typography course at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, in Switzerland, under Emil Ruder’s tutelage.

Technological progress again confronted the ITU in the post-war period. A number of new advances—including offset lithography, flexography, relief print, screen printing, rotogravure, and digital printing—greatly reduced the number of workers needed in the modern printshop and newspaper composing room. In 1964, the ITU counted 121,858 members. But by 1980, the union had shed nearly a quarter of its membership due to technological advances.

Street & Smith composing room circa 1905-1910 Street & Smith bindery in 1910 Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp fiction. They also published comic books and sporting yearbooks. Among their many titles was the science fiction pulp magazine Astounding Stories, acquired from Clayton Magazines in 1933, and retained until 1961.

In the ground floor and upper floor there is a permanent exhibition about Schütz's life and works. In the attic is the restored Komponierstube (composing room), where he composed his late works. In the room are two fragments of handwritten music by Schütz that were discovered in the building. Staff at the museum carry out research about Schütz and about the musical life of Weißenfels, resulting in publications, exhibitions and events.

On July 24, 1876, Dargie became the manager of the newspaper. He envisioned that Oakland and Alameda County would grow in the future and that the Oakland Tribune would be the major newspaper to serve the new populace. Using his knowledge from the composing room and editorial department, Dargie made the Tribune a newspaper of credibility. He hired an excellent staff and purchased the latest presses and linotype machines.

In fact, Greenspun had intended to call his column "From Where I Stand," but the first word fell off on the way to the composing room. With the Sun catching up in circulation, Reynolds exercised his option. On December 11, 1960, he bought out Cahlan, who, along with his column, was gone from the R-J the next day. There has been some uncertainty about the paper's ownership.

In 1847 he established a newspaper, the Thursday Sketcher, in Great Falls, New Hampshire. He ran the newspaper for four years before coming to New York City to report for a number of papers. He set type for the New York Times, a task which was more profitable in this era than reporting. He stayed for four years before he joined the composing room of the New York Tribune.

The composing room was enlarged and a photo darkroom was installed. Highlighting the renovation was the installation of a five-unit color press, three times the size of the one it replaced. It could print up to 80 pages at once, while cutting the press run of 18,000 copies to less than two hours. Through a large picture window fronting on 58th Street, passers by could watch the daily being printed.

As a teenager, she accompanied her father on late-night visits to the composing room and pressroom, her favorite parts of the newspaper, and filled in for vacationing proofreaders. She graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, with a degree in English in 1970. In 1990, she completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. From 2010 to 2011, she was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

John H.D. Madin and Partners used it as their greatest achievement along with Birmingham Central Library which was completed ten years after the Post and Mail building. The entrance hall to the tower was located at the left hand end of the podium. To the left of the editorial block is the printing works with a composing room at top, a two-storey publishing area below it, and a machine hall in a deep basement.

In 1872, he returned to the Chronicle as a "printer's devil," who looked after various details in the composing room of the paper. His siblings also worked at the newspaper to supplement the income of their father, a lay religious leader for Knoxville's small Jewish community. The Chronicle was the only Republican, pro- Reconstruction, newspaper in the city, but Ochs counted Father Ryan, the Poet- Priest of the Confederacy, among his customers.Neely, Jack.

In the 1950s, he was instrumental in the creation of the High School of Industrial Arts (later renamed the High School of Art and Design) in New York City. He also founded a paper mill and artist colony in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the old Turkish railway station. in 1969, Leslie retired for the Composing Room and AIGA awarded him the AIGA medal. Later that year, he became president of Typophiles, an organization of book lovers.

His heavy reliance on typography led him to work intimately with copywriters. In the mid-1950s, he developed a relationship with Aaron Burns (at the Composing Room) who introduced him to new typefaces to experiment with in his work. His work in the late 1950s and 60s was distinctly modern and the mark of American advertising’s “Creative Revolution.” After a seven-year stint at Benton and Bowles, he started his own agency in 1967 with copywriter Dick Lord.

He changed the editorial policy to the Loyalist (Union) line, raised advertising rates, and he doubled the cover price to two cents. After an initial drop, circulation rebounded and the paper resumed profitability. Childs was intimately involved in all operations of the paper, from the press room to the composing room, and he intentionally upgraded the quality of advertisements appearing in the publication to suit a higher end readership. For four years he rarely left the paper before midnight.

The outline was then applied to a block consisting of multiple layers of Turkish boxwood and additional detail added by specialized artists. The large block of wood was then separated into its constituent pieces and turned over to the engraving department, which meticulously carved out the white sections, leaving the black illustration in relief. The sections of the wood block were then rejoined and sent to the composing room, where the illustration was converted to part of an electrotyped copper plate for printing.

He faced much resistance of the prospects of a journalism school from editorial boards across the state, but when he was appointed by Governor Lon V. Stephens to the Board of Curators in 1899, a school of journalism became a more likely prospect. In 1959, construction began on a new headquarters for the Columbia Missourian. The addition to Jay H. Neff Hall included of floor space with newsroom, composing room, and press room. The new headquarters was dedicated in May 1962.

Sign over the building's entrance (2006) The first issue of the Inquirer printed at the building came out on July 13, 1925. The newspaper operation was considered at the time to have the most modern printing plant in the world, with the largest composing room and fastest printing presses. The building also featured an auditorium and an assembly hall, and had its own refrigeration and water filtration plant. The interior features a globe chandelier in the lobby, and a catwalk over the former press room.

As described in a film magazine, Toby Watkins (Ray) is a farm hand who writes poetry for the local paper, the Sabert Weekly Clarion, much to his uncle's disgust. Following a quarrel in which he beats his uncle, he is ordered away from home. He gets a position at the paper as a bill collector and is soon elevated to foreman of the composing room. Kendall Reeves (MacDonald), a crook, comes to town and plans to mulct the populace by starting a canning factory.

Price began his career at age 15 at the Boulder (Colorado) Daily Camera, where he worked in the composing room and advertising. While at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Price became a stringer for the Denver Post and had more front page bylines in 1983 than any other freelancer at the Post that year. In 1984, Price moved to Aspen, Colorado, and worked as a reporter at the Aspen Daily News. In 1987, Price became news director and morning anchor of KSNO-FM and KTYE-AM.

Stephens was born at Toowoomba, Queensland. His father, Samuel George Stephens, came from Swansea, Wales, and his mother, originally Euphemia Russell, was born in Greenock, Scotland. The first enrolled boy, he was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School until he was 15, and had a good grounding in English, French, and the classics, but his education was later much extended by wide reading. His father was part-owner of the Darling Downs Gazette, and in its composing room the boy developed his first interest in printing.

Bird had returned to Rockhampton by 1870, and rejoined the staff at The Morning Bulletin. He recommenced worked in the composing room at the newspaper where he became foreman and overseer by 1875. Following this, Bird moved into more editorial roles and due to his gold mining experience was appointed editor of the newspaper's mining columns. As mining editor, Bird became one of the first to write about the gold which was found at Mount Morgan in 1882, resulting in the construction of Mount Morgan Mine.

The building is a rectangle approximately 132 x 120 feet (40 x 36 m). A service area with bathrooms, stairs, etc., occupies a strip 20 feet (6 m) wide that runs lengthwise through the center of the building, dividing the remainder into two sections that are each 132 x 50 feet (40 x 15 m). One of those sections was designed for the printing equipment and composing room and the other for the offices, with the service area acting as a buffer between them to shield the offices from the noise of the printing machinery.

In the front room "copy" was produced, the second was the composing room, and the third was where the hand-worked press printed the newspapers. It was decided to move the operation to higher ground on the north side of lower Sturt Street, still in the centre of commercial activity, but in the municipal district of Ballarat West. By 1870 Ballarat's two morning papers, Star and Courier were near neighbours in lower Sturt Street and the columnists of both papers thrived on the rivalry with amusing references to the opposition.Mansfield, Peter G. Editor (1982).

The Repertory Club initially worked out of a basement room at the Palace Hotel and, later, the old composing room of the Western Australian Newspaper Company. The need for the Playhouse arose as Perth's main theatre, His Majesty's Theatre was considered too large to provide a feasible venue for locally produced live-theatre productions, and had been functioning principally as a cinema since the early 1940s. In the mid-1950s the board and members of the Repertory Club commenced fundraising for the construction of a smaller purpose-built theatre to stage their productions.

Nobbs, to quote Stone, 'whisked me out of the hand-composing room into his office' where he taught him to appreciate letter design. A chance encounter with Eric Gill on the London to Cambridge train led to Stone spending a fortnight with Gill at Piggotts in Speen, Buckinghamshire engraving an alphabet on wood.J. W. Goodison, Reynolds Stone: his early development as an engraver on wood (Cambridge University Press, 1947). In 1932 he moved to Taunton, where he spent two years working at the printing firm of Barnicott & Pearce, a very different experience from his time in Cambridge.

Although the fire caused extensive damage to the newspaper's building and equipment, MacLaren continued to publish with the help of the rival Saturday Morning weekly, owned by brothers Fred and William Walls. MacLaren set up an office in the basement of the Ross Block and used the composing room and press equipment of the Saturday Morning to keep the paper coming out. Six months later, MacLaren and William Walls joined forces to publish The Barrie Examiner and Saturday Morning. Eventually, the paper's name was shortened, although the Examiner continued to publish the paper out of the Saturday Morning offices.

That same year, Wiley named former Times reporter Sheldon Compton the managing editor of the Herald, a position he would hold for roughly a year before departing the paper's staff. Midge Bowling, who began her career in the composing room of the Herald, continued to serve as advertising manager. The first half of the decade included much controversy on the local scene, first with the local county school board and an investigation into the superintendent's contract, which ultimately turned up no wrongdoing. Another investigation saw a circuit judge indicted by a federal grand jury and subsequently convicted.

It was launched on January 1, 1856, by Ephraim B. McCrum and William M. Allison, with equipment purchased from the defunct Altoona Register. Two years later, H. C. Dern acquired Allison's share of the company, and in 1875, Hugh Pitcairn replaced McCrum. Dern and Pitcairn started publishing daily issues in 1873. These were discontinued after two years, but resumed in 1878. The Tribune occupied its own three-story building at 1110 12th Street, with the press room in the basement, circulation and advertising on the first floor, the editorial department on the second floor and the composing room on the third floor.

In the Composing Room, there are over a hundred wood and lead types. There are four fully operational type-setting machines: a Typograph, two Intertypes and a Linotype, all over a hundred years old. The Museum contains a large collection of printing types, displacing a fraction of its large collections of type cases for different font sizes from small lead and types including large carved pear-wood type, as well as composing tools and composing sticks. The Printing Room houses a collection from the Eickhoff factory in Copenhagen which was active from the 1890s until the mid-20th century.

The post-war period saw the company compete with new innovations such as television yet still push up sales by an average of 1,120 a year. Despite a national print dispute in 1959, the circulation rose to 201,594 copies a day. Until 1963, the MNA published the Express & Star, Wolverhampton Chronicle plus the Saturday football paper, all set in a conventional hot metal composing room and printed on five letterpress machines. In 1964, plans were made to hive off 19,000 copies of the Salop edition to create the Shropshire Star, published at a new photo-composed offset printing plant in Ketley.

When the Times moved into the building in 1858, it became the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building erected specifically for its use. The 1851 building, dwarfing that of the Tribune just to the north, was described by the Times in 2001 as "a declaration that the newspaper regarded itself as a powerful institution in civic life". The structure had arched brick floors set within iron girders. The Times had printing presses and stereotype machines in the basement; publication offices on the first floor; its editorial department and reporters on the fourth floor; and a composing room on the first floor.

While still in his mid-teens he began work as a printer for the Gardiner, Maine Home Journal. At the age of 17 he became state editor of The Daily Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine. His career took him briefly to Chicago, Los Angeles and then in 1888 to Seattle, where he arrived November 6, 1888 and promptly became a printer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A year after arriving in Seattle, Chadwick married Laura M. Castle, originally of Washington, D.C. He became a reporter and assistant city editor at the Seattle Press and then foreman of the composing room at the Seattle Press-Times (which later became the Seattle Times).

On April 10, 1875, the Tribune announced that it had started issuing from the new building. The initial section of the building only had frontage of along Nassau Street and on Spruce Street; the remainder of the Spruce Street frontage was occupied by the Tribune printing house at the time. The original floor layout with per floor, was small enough that all of the offices could be lit directly by the windows, and the thick masonry walls took up half the first floor area. At the beginning, the editorial rooms were on the eighth floor while the composing room was on the ninth floor.

" Brown described how Evolution was composed: :"The first few stanzas of Evolution were written in 1895 and published in the New York Herald where he was then employed. Four years later, when a member of the New York Journal staff, he wrote several more. These he laid aside for a while and then, from time to time, added a stanza until it was completed. Whether the editorial department failed to appreciate the poem, or the foreman of the composing room needed something with which to fill out a page is not known, but Evolution first appeared in its entirety in the center of a page of want advertisements in the New York Journal.

He would wander through the composing room daily, sometimes to compliment us or to complain about the appearance of the previous day's paper, or to stop and show someone how to set type or to feed the press. Evidently he wanted to impress upon his employees that he had done it all, that he knew what he was talking about, that he had written the news and set in type and operated the press.” MacDonald, who had become increasingly ill with tuberculosis, spent his last day, December 4, 1904, at the Chronicle office. Arriving home at the end of that day, he died of a sudden pulmonary hemorrhage, age 47.140th Anniversary Edition, the Chronicle, January 4, 2017. p. 22.

1915 On 29 September 1875 James Gale took on his first apprentice, William T Nash, aged fourteen. Nash went on to work for the Company for sixty-eight years, rising to be Composing Room Overseer, a post he held for nearly forty years until 1943 when he died aged 82. In 1875 Nash was soon joined by Thomas Ernest Polden, aged 16. By 1880 the bookselling side of Gale's business was very successful, and Gale publicised it by announcing that "A selection of several hundreds of most modern and popular books will always be found in stock and, having made arrangements for receiving parcels from the principal London Houses daily, the book that should not happen to be in stock could be obtained immediately".

Retrieved 21 January 2020."Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum" Museen der Stadt Dresden. Retrieved 21 January 2020."Das Carl-Maria-von-Weber- Museum" Stadtmuseum Dresden. Retrieved 21 January 2020. He regarded his times here as the happiest of his life; he liked to take walks in the , a rural area nearby. He received at the house guests including the composers Louis Spohr and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient."Carl- Maria-von-Weber-Museum" Dresden und Sachsen Landeskunde & Reiseführer. Retrieved 21 January 2020. A room on the upper floor (now furnished in the fashion of his day) was Weber's composing room. He wrote here large parts of his operas Der Freischütz and Euryanthe, the outline of his opera Oberon, and Invitation to the Dance.

As Irish immigrants were disproportionately employed as laborers, and had less education than other ethnic groups, Bridgeport was hit especially hard by the depression, and this was reflected in the columns. Dunne's anger especially focused on George Pullman, whose wage cuts for his workers (while not cutting the rents of their houses, which his company owned) helped provoke the Pullman Strike of 1894. In his column of August 25, Dunne wrote, Dunne brought this column into the Post composing room to be set in type. When he returned later to check the proof, the typesetters began to drum their sticks on their cases, and then burst into lengthy applause, an experience Dunne described as the most moving of his life.

In 1922, master printer Daniel Berkeley Updike described sans-serif fonts as having "no place in any artistically respectable composing-room." By 1937 he stated that he saw no need to change this opinion in general, though he felt that Gill Sans and Futura were the best choices if sans-serifs had to be used. Through the early twentieth century, an increase in popularity of sans-serif fonts took place as more artistic sans-serif designs were released. While he disliked sans-serif fonts in general, the American printer J.L. Frazier wrote of Copperplate Gothic in 1925 that "a certain dignity of effect accompanies...due to the absence of anything in the way of frills," making it a popular choice for the stationery of professionals such as lawyers and doctors.

The headline or heading is the text indicating the nature of the article below it. The large type front page headline did not come into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines. It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type.NY Times: On Language: HED Headlines in English often use a set of grammatical rules known as headlinese, designed to meet stringent space requirements by, for example, leaving out forms of the verb "to be" and choosing short verbs like "eye" over longer synonyms like "consider".

Editor Haigley assigned Zappone, The Oracle's first staff shutterbug, the task of creating one color photograph illustrating an aspect of campus life or events for the front page of each issue. It was a feature that no other university newspaper had at that time and was a cooperative effort with the St. Petersburg Times (now The Tampa Bay Times). Each Tuesday, Haigley, Zappone and a third alternating staff member drove 30 miles from the USF campus in North Tampa to the downtown St. Petersburg headquarters of the St. Pete Times to spend an afternoon supervising the composing room staff while mechanicals and plates for the late night press run of The Oracle were assembled. The papers were trucked to the campus each week in the early-morning hours and set out in racks around the campus.

Listening to a rehearsal of Alcina with the soprano Anna Maria Strada, Mrs Pendarves commented, "Whilst Mr Handel was playing his part, I could not help thinking him a necromancer in the midst of his enchantments." The Messiah was also rehearsed there; the lead violinist Abraham Wilson recounted to the musicologist Charles Burney "how civilly he had been attended by him [Handel] to the door, and how carefully cautioned, after being heated by a crowded room and hard labour, at the rehearsal in Brook-street, not to stir without a [Sedan] chair." The adjacent room at the rear of the house was Handel's composing room and probably contained Handel's clavichord, an instrument Handel used when composing, portable enough to be taken on journeys and which, according to an anecdote oft-repeated by his biographers, he secretly played as a child in the garret of his house, in defiance of his father. Handel's clavichord was built in 1726 by the Italian instrument maker Annibale Traeri from Modena; it is now in the Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery in Kent.