DeWitt Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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They were trying to squeeze, to juice a story and make a headline. fr-Phe words have to he like putty, so that you can pun them and push them and maize them fit the cotumnsg the General Qrganization stands for nineteen spaces and Doon Guernsey for fourteend But they coutdn,t pick the dignified words that were to head the dignified story. Then somehody started to speak ahout the days when the HNewsU hadnt heen connected with the G.Q., when the headlines were stangy and partiatg and the others rememhered the times even further hack . . . NV hen he was through reading he went into the ottice of the faculty adviser, Mr. Raphael Phitipson, to get cartare to go down to the printer . . . When you go to the printer you don,t leave there untit nightg and your hands are htactc with ink and your eyes' red from the continuous reading. When you,re through at night, when the First proof has rotted out of the press, you put on your clothes and go home with the other fellows. You,re a httie thankful that everything has turned out an right, that there are no mistakes: hut you,re too tired and hungry to laugh or he happy. The next day the statt- men pore over the paper for mistatcesg the students skim over it hurriedly and then throw it away. You sit down with the editor-in-chief and start woric on the next issue . . . ARISTA

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PUBLICATIONS Sing Qut The News Vxfnen ttie IDeII ended tI1e period Ile went downstairs to the HNevvsH Qiitice. It was Iate in the morning and tI'1e proofs of tI1e Iast stories Iiad just Come up from tI1e printer. I-Ie sIumped down into one of the seats and started to read and Correct ttie stieets .... . . . ltys boring to read proof . . . fput a capital f in Iunior, a comma after clog Because clog is the tniral in a series, clraw wavy lines that go to nowliere, jumtnlecl lines to tlie ink-smeared margins to snow tlie printer tlmat liis macliine spiitecl leacl into ine wrong liole, that the teaclieris name is spelt ue and not euj . . . and it,s cleaclening to near the low rasping of Uoices arouncl you, like water clrooling clown a clogged pipe . . , Hfincleni three spaces, new line, Capital U, close quotes, liyplien, capital T, open quotes, comma, clasli, comma, Capital F He IooIced up from the sheet in Iiis Iiandsg in one corner of tI1e room tI'1e Five graduating members of time Managing Board were I1uddIed around a pIan of Page Qneg Dick Cohen, tI'1e smaII, impetuous Editor-in-Chief, Irv Fartnman, ttie IaugI1ing, eIaony-Iiaired Sports Editor, I'Iovvard IaudIoW, tIr1e quiet, con- servative Annex Page Editorg Jerry EIswit, tIae gangIing, eye-gIassed I-IeadIines Editor: and Don IaeigI1t, tI1e diIigent, moderate Tryout instructor . . .

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East Side, West Side . Up in tide Tower, in the room aiyove the music rooms fyou sometimes near ttie tresiirnen singing De Vxfitt Ci, tiiey edit the Magpie, The room is iarge, arched windows in every wait, and iigiit and invigorat- ing. in tide center of tiie room are two smaii tainies strewn witti students, manu- scripts. Around these taiaies time memioers of the Magpie read, correct, and criticize . . . And the Magpie is the magazine with a theme, to entertain and to edu- cate tiie student, to ive ciean-cut and vivid, to anaiyze, to scuipture, to sicetcii, to ciiisei, to paint tiie peopie, tide worid . . . iViany years ago, Mr. Rapiaaei Piaiiipson headed tide Magpie, even tiaien the iviagpie didnlt crusade. But time articies were more woridiy, iess inewiidered, iess bitter tiian novx f... ioeiore tiiat tile Niagpie was a tainioid-magazine, smaiier, iess pretentious . . . This term tide Niagpie ideai is Hixfietropoiitan Carnivain Tide red, tiie yeiiow, tide iniood and time fiesta, tine paint-pots and tile piiiories of this city are its suiajects. Sidney Ciciayetsicy is time editor-in-ciaiet, Mrs. Marceiia Whalen tiie facuity adviser ,... Yousre An Education in Yourself -aso after a quarter-century of amassing iwigin averages and accumuiating extensive service records, Arista decided to prove to ttie worid of Ciinton that 95,5 on a record card neednit duii a tmasicetioaii eye, nor vveaicen tide effectiveness of a down-Field iaiocic. Foottnaii and ioasicetinaii teams were born and the sicepticism dispeiied. Neverttieiess, the vaiue of tiie society to the sciaooi stiii remained in its services. One of tiaese, organized oniy iast term, has now taicen its piace as