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All photos courtesy of the UCLA Young Library Daily News Collection, unless otherwise specified.


Now is that a copy editor or is that a copy editor? This is one Herb Allen, and the calendar looks like May of 1942.  Pastepots, suspenders, green visor, chomped cigar in corner of mouth. As it should still be! Allen was a copy editor at the openly socialist Los Angeles Record, who moved to
The News when the two papers merged.*


Stop the presses! Because. . .they're on fire again. Talk about a hot scoop. The big old 1920's era presses used to catch fire every month or two. When they began rumbling, the building shook like 5.0 earthquake.


Hey, they don't call it a fishwrap for nothing! Daily News truckers taking their jobs stone-cold seriously. The place was irreverent from the ground up.

 

  


You wonder if the order of newspapers at this newsrack was indicative of street sales of the four downtown papers: Evening Herald-Express, Daily News, Times, Examiner.


The lone Daily News "radio car," circa 1950, a Studebaker Commander, parked outside the building at Pico and Los Angeles. Reporters were known to park them near watering holes and wait for assignments.


The Daily News mobile photo unit, with dark room in the back, late '40's.


Copyboy Pat Foley with early ancestor of the computer mouse. The Daily News was very hospitable to rodents, though apparently not in this instance.


Unidentified Daily New photog, probably Harry Watson, in mad scientist get-up.


A Daily News printing plant, probably on Venice Boulevard.


Sparky Saldana, presumably off deadline. Or maybe not.


Sports editor and columnist Ned Cronin  (reportedly dressed up for a Pinky Lee Look-alike contest.)


Cronin was presented with a Cadillac in recognition of his 25 years of sportswriting. His great friend, the author Gene Fowler, stands at the left (glasses), and next to him is UCLA football coach Red Sanders. Cronin stands at center (glasses.)

 

The composing room boys. Second row, third from right is one Laurance G. Fowler, make-up editor who went on to become the longtime and rather feared managing editor of the Valley News and Green Sheet in the San Fernando Valley. At the Daily News, Fowler represented the union in the red-baiting episode involving reporters Darr Smith and Vern Partlow, while Daily News managing editor Phil Garrison represented management in demanding that Smith and Partlow reveal whether they were communists. Garrison later worked as night copy chief at the Valley News under Fowler.

Another group shot of the composing room boys, including linotype operaters, typesetters, and newsroom supervisors including, again, Laurance G. Fowler (second row, third from right.)

*Information from Rob Wagner's superb, highly recommended history of Los Angeles newspapers, Red Ink White Lies.


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