“Read all about it! Read all about it?”

Ahhh ... there was a time when news was shouted from the street corners. It’s easy to picture a young lad holding high a copy of The New York Times and pitching: “Titanic Sinks. Titanic Sinks.” Verbal headlines like that would turns heads ... and sell newspapers.

Many historical headlines like “Hitler Dead” and “VE Day — It’s All Over” are now tucked into collections, especially that favorite mistake in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1948: “Dewey Defeats Truman.”

I got into the newspaper biz in the late ’60s as Linotype machines were being shoved aside by most newspapers. It was clear the typesetting class I took in seventh grade was a waste of time. I was lucky enough to work with a Linotype operation early on and to be part of the evolving history

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