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Show IUIIU( l-Mlry. Nowrpeper tradition In New York contain many quaint luitanec of the art of boiling down copy, It b a com moll aaylng that A mwipaper receive twlco a much matter a it prints A large aacrlfloe to the blue pencil or rejected re-jected copy tplndle b Inei Italic. The champion boiler of now In the Now York olllce In the day that veteran hi the burine illll remember wa Dr. Wood, tthocicrclMdhbartinTlnb'un cfUce for many yean, and the mnat ar- i tbtlo feat of condensation reincmbeml cfhlmb worth recording. One night A half oolutau pneni wa tunmlover to him to edit. Copy wa ropy to Mi j practical eye, and lie act out to gt t at ; the meat of the verve an I ttato It In the feweat poulble words TtiUwai tho reaulti rvi reu lor uial Xe. TUB I go. Now York Times |