Keep the sheet tight, kid
Got an e-mail, of all things, from an old pressman, setting me straight on a few facts about the art of the newspaper hat.
Got an e-mail, of all things, from Bill Campbell, Jr., whose 43 years of getting dirty for this place requires me to yield the floor for a moment and let him amplify a few things about last week's column on "The Art of Making Newspaper Hats."
That was the piece that let me spend a few hours with Bill Daley, my octogenarian mudman neighbor, as he demonstrated the craft, really, that he learned from his future bride's father, a Norwegian printer. In it I tell how the shrinking dimensions of the paper and the vagueries of fashion have made ballcaps more popular at our printing plant than the classic pressman's hat. Bill Campbell set me a little straighter:
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