One Monday morning ten years ago, John R. White, mechanical superintendent of the Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with him.
Last week, after ten years of backing and inventing, the partners demonstrated their perfected Semagraph in the Manhattan offices of the Associated Press. Seated at an electrically driven typewriter, a...
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