Love Story

 

“In another age, when the newsrooms of metropolitan dailies pulsed to the rising thunder of typewriters on deadline, Mr. Hamill, a high school dropout who was searching for a future after years of academic frustration, Navy life and graphic design work, walked into the city room of The New York Post in 1960, as he told it, and fell in love with newspapering.

 

“‘The room was more exciting to me than any movie,’ he recalled in a memoir, ‘an organized chaos of editors shouting from desks, copy boys dashing through doors into the composing room, men and women typing at big manual typewriters, telephones ringing, the wire service tickers clattering, everyone smoking and putting butts out on the floor.’” 

 

 —Robert McFadden, writer, “Pete Hamill, Quintessential New York Journalist, Dies at 85,” NYTimes, April 5, 2020.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: The days of bulldogs, dingbats, dummies, devils, screamers & sob sisters.

 

 

 

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