Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 6, 1953
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Six days a week, a rain or shine, your newspaper is delivered to your home. The newspaper boy who places it there has to come to symbolize one of our nation's great institutions. The biographies of many of our leading citizens contain a passage such as this: "He had a paper route while in high school." In the course of conducting his business, the newsboy acquires valuable training for his future career. He learns to meet people on a friendly basis; he learns to buy and sell; to handle money. And above everything else, he learns a sense of responsibility that moves him to carry a given task to its completion. (Fifth of a series)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 3, 1953
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Desk men--and women--in the newspaper office edit the work of reporters and the seemingly endless stream of copy from news wire services. They write the headlines and check for accuracy. They are expected to be versed in grammar and spelling and to have a functional knowledge of current literature and world affairs. They must be accurate, fair, understanding, curious, skeptical. Stingy with precious space, their motto is: "There's nothing so good it can't be cut." (Third of a series)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 5, 1953
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Essential is the production of all newspapers and often forgotten by the public are the members of the mechanical department. They are the men who actually make your daily paper. Printers, engravers, stereotypers, typesetters, proofreaders and pressmen are all members of this highly specialized team that helps in getting out your daily newspaper. Only after they have done their part can a cast be made which will be used to print the daily newspaper. Then, as fast as today's high-speed presses can print it, this world-at-your-fingertips is made ready for its journey to your doorstep or newsstand. (Fourth of a series)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 2, 1953
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While the reporters and photographers are the ears and eyes of your newspaper, the world-wide press services are its circulatory and nervous system. By means of telephone, telegraph, beamcast, radio and cable, word of today's happenings is channeled to central offices where the wire editors keep their fingers on the pulse of world events. The news is then retransmitted over coast-to-coast networks, and rolls in never-ending streams from machines in your own newspaper's office. Your paper is a mirror which reflects today's world, today--thanks to modern channels of communication.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 1, 1953
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Many of your newspaper reporters are as well known to you as members of your own family. In reality, they are your extra set of eyes and ears, as they look and listen for the news that you would not have time to seek out for yourself. Because they live in a democracy, they are free to write fearlessly, dispassionately, and without prejudice. They sift the important from the unimportant in the hope that they can impart to you, the reader, a true picture of what goes on in this complex world. Their job is to make you the best-informed reader on earth. (First of a series)

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 30, 1965
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B-r-raving The Elements. "Grin and bear it" seems to be the motto of newsstand operator Alan Sheperd and gas station owner Herbert (Bud) Twining Jr. as they brave near-zero temperatures to serve their customers. They are typical of many workers who follow in the footsteps of mailmen when frigid air, snow, sleet and rain make working in the great outdoors far from great. Continued cold weather is forecast for the weekend.