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The Winds of Barclay Street - The Amusing Life and Sad Demise of the New York World-Telegram and Sun (Paperback)
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The Winds of Barclay Street - The Amusing Life and Sad Demise of the New York World-Telegram and Sun (Paperback)
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John Ferris wrote The Winds of Barclay Street on behalf of the men
and women who worked on the New York World-Telegram and Sun. After
the prestigious newspaper's demise, in 1967, he often reminisced
with his former colleagues, fondly remembering the antics and
tomfoolery of fellow journalists as well as their reportage of
serious news. Their past seemed a wondrous experience that must be
preserved before it faded completely, consigning their signi cant
if often foolish history to oblivion. The Winds of Barclay Street
recalls comical episodes of the reporters on daily assignment for
news, as well as the highly-gifted sta writers and editors who
enlivened their working hours by writing ctitious, amusing articles
not found in straight news. The book covers the heady days of the
newspaper's prime through its sad but inevitable decline and
eventual demise due to economic and social conditions in New York
City of the 1960s. Today the old Barclay Street is unrecognizable,
as giant behemoths of architectural stone and granite cover the
former location of a once-great newspaper and the small businesses
of lower Manhattan. The Winds of Barclay Street recalls a lost era
and the individual men and women who wrote a newspaper read by
thousands of commuters on subway, bus, train, or ferry, and by
subscribers at home.
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