The Press: Far & Fast

The newest thing in newspapers is a Buck Rogerish fantasy come true. It is a four-page, pictureless, adless New York Times — containing much of the News That's Fit to Print, distilled from the Times' s regular 32 to 40 pages. It crosses the country by wirephoto, at the speed of 20 minutes a half page, and delegates to the San Francisco conference read it at breakfast.

As a printing job, the baby Times is a good bit greyer than the good, grey mother Times. It has had its production troubles : one night the paper was held up because a motorcycle...

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