Bee, 1932-12-21

              the bee the university of buffalo weekly vol 13 university of buffalo december 21 1932 no 13 ode to the thursday morn club by a member there's a certain poetry in those wed nesday nights when the bee goes to press and the city lights are dimmed as the wee hours approach the make-up staff resorts to caffeine and lady nicotine to stand the gaff ve editor busies over a final editorial and semis to the comp room the late roportoriul and charlie he says bring over all the galleys only eight over here and again he tallies as bill cracks a joke he tackles the dummy while sum pours some liquid into his tummy his job is done and gi is a blessing od the way these reporters write keeps me guessing says dick ed get that correction from the copy ' ' gee that linotyper certainly is loppy ' ' charlie returns bob's still on bull pen i'll stir him up he ought to be on galley ten that linotyper s probably drunk again set charlie writing heads and then busy with the ' pot ' and paste the front page roily leaves the smoke-tilled room in a rage under the biting light of a suspended green shade in the composing room sits auld bob who is by a trade a veteran in the saddle of the linotype machine he's lost without its complex labyrine bob's a mukcr of port an author of verse a spinner of yams and a quick one to curse he's never seen without a hat like caesar's laurel it hides a pinkness of south sea coral as i enter the door he's busier than before i always warn him with its mighty jar now bob gets up to light the ever present cigar from the blue flame of the lino with a twisted paper resuming his seat 1 hear the tinkling caper of the mats as they slide down the chute with a imi'-ir aa sweet as that of a lute ' ' well boby what s the fly in the oint ment the way your working is a disappoint ment i thought ycu a skilled steady operator we want to get home your a lousy co operator ' ' this damned contraption s on the blink thoy ought to throw it in the brink the type y ' see don t come out straight in ten point — course i could use the eight but bull pen's only about half done to fix this machine is no great fun i stood by helpless before the maze of iron while bob probed deep into the phe nomenon this ooxx?i thing has a thou sand parts no wonder the inventor mergenthaler went nertz ' ' yet you printers all thank him from your heartta " bill then comes in u chew to borrow from tho pack on the desk of foreman garrow with this little note pasted on the package he politely excuses vandal sabotage when i chew up ten cents worth a new pack i'll send forth about the spitoon stands a ridge of cuds the brown stain forms a bridge from garrow s desk to the cuspidor like fresh treacle upon the sea floor the lino is fixed and races on madly with the clock as a pacer auld bob inks the type and runs off the proofs and bill takes them to the make-up onfs who cut them up and stick them in place to save the day and the editor's face he gives the dummy a final surveillance maybe he finds the front page out of bal ance or an article that should be changed about if that is so the boys all shout as they see him rip and tear away as if he had all night to play at last each page is filled with type — a lot o bosh and no count tripe the d p w then tidies the room and for a time all are held in gloom fatigued to tho core they turn toward home and atty " the studebaker heaves a groan her consumptive cough means the scrap heap is near so here's a prosit with a stein of beer for first there s a stop at a bavarian pub where tho wednesday night crew is the thursday morn club a merry christmas and a happy new year dear santa please bring to the faculty a directory to the local speakeasies for hiss adamson a book on sexology to dr leary stanley travis would greatly appre ciate a good leading man — sez you sey mourl give dr carpenter a hint that his by and large is on the whole not so good dr boynton a class of dizzy blondes interested in the philosophy t of mar riage dr chambers — well he's got it give professor bonner more english cut tobacco and please give dr lester a new set up dr kerr a new shirt to wipe his hands on dr pound would like to have somebody subscribe to the bee — for him dr jones wishes he had arch-support miss bartholomew's new rage is aus tins well o k mr silverman — he also ' ' has ' ' it give dr tibbetts a piece of chalk and an eraser dr scofleld a couple of new physio logical psych studes " staff letter to nrs santa claus bee office buffalo n y dec 21 1932 dear mrs santa claus us boys is told to believe in the bally hoo concerning your lesser half but just as a favor to us we do love you please hint to him that some of us slaving-uns are in dire distress for instance the editor you know — the red-headed one his goggles ain't so good send him some smoked ones to keep the glare of his own brilliance from blinding him our poor bill nee sawyer is in a bad way i don t like to get so personal but he needs a few more engaged women on his list and some — s-b-h — chewing to bacco bull durham sammy same old line gibson is our business(f munagcr in satan's name have you hubby leave in his stocking a list of new advertisers the old ones are faithful but dubious inasmuch as the copy editor known in private life as dick ball is also a titian red-headed to you please deposit one carton of light purplo hair rinse at his home on christmas eve only tell mr claus to get there early for the lad re tires at 8:30 sharp yes really our up and coming news editor is pretty well situated her only need is more anti-war movements be regular leave each reporter a doll just kids you know this little rhyme with apologies to rosamond lchmann has been concocted by a yearning member of the staff just to give your husband a break we're passing it on jealous catch ont here tis helen peters is her name and single is her station happy is the lucky man who makes the alterition helen is stylus editor so we beat her at her own game helen steck is anaemic — give her some pills for her circulation seymour at sea abeles is hungry hungry for more bull for his pen i thank you dearie in advance and remain as ever your handsome baby henry the viii p s please rush that hair rinse twins on the staff is so disrupting is this wincheu oe just ell janet being a psychologist has es tablished a norm and apparently in tends to maintain the standard you're no ostrich don quit cran ing your neck at that swede it is childs play when it comes to dancing with joe just b.-cause vtu'rc attached to a webb does not mean bob that you're u spider i sawyer alma bill and i think she will bender head your way poor sally here tis most christmas and no ono to beyer presents she tries to keep diebold front by pro fessing misagoniism — but london is quite a few miles away the keyholeb m jl wi\^^^w^hti\\w m