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The copy desk of the Indianapolis Star, circa 1942. What's a slot man?
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n the old days, when everybody was a 'man' and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- 'rim men' -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the 'slot' so he could reach all the rim guys when he needed to hand out stories to work on.
The term is still widely used today (though often it's just 'slot'), and some copy desks are still set up in basically the same fashion, except with computers. Crazy luck casino no deposit bonus.
In the photo above, as the ancient textbook from which I stole it putsit, 'The arrangement is somewhat unusual, because on only a few papersdoes anyone sit inside the horseshoe except the head of the desk. In thisinstance the state editor is seated inside at the foot on the left sideand the telegraph editor inside at the foot on the right side. The slotman is in the center of the horseshoe across from the head of the desk andthe news editor.' (This caption appears to use 'head of the desk' once as a term for a human and once as a geographical term.) Betonline casino no deposit bonus codes.
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