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Subject: Composing Room Anecdotes

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Patrick Leary

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Date Posted: 04:00:40 04/20/03 Sun
In reply to: Dave Hughes 's message, "AMUSING ANECDOTES" on 10:43:53 06/06/01 Wed

In the summer of 1956 I was a relief Linotype operator at the Canton (Ill.) Daily Ledger, most of the time running a Model 26 mixer which was the headline/cutline machine. One day as I was standing at the dump waiting for copy Garland Pirres who was the monitor for two TTS-powered robots approached me, complaining he could hardly wait for another worker to vacate the men's restroom. After I acknowledged his dilemma, I felt something hit my shoe, not unlike a dribble. I instantly cocked my fist, but his smile gave him away. He had sureptitiously sprinkled sprue from one of the linecasters on my shoe--he sure had me fooled!

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