IT HAPPENS EVERY THURSDAY

by Jane S. McIlvaine ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A high-hearted, strenuous account of country editorship in which the McIlvaines, in buying The Archive, in Downingtown, Pa., in 1946, find themselves often in hot water and cold debt. After their purchase, they learned that the area was bad for a weekly paper, that six other papers had died there, and that they really knew nothing from nothing about newspapers -- or people. The problems of printing, first in a neighboring town, later on their own machines, of subscribers, of typographical errors, of building up advertising, public relations and circulation; the question of the effectiveness of the unlimited time they spent on the job and the wear and tear of each deadline: the final push that the government's wages and hours investigation led to -- are combined into a human interest story, liberally flavored with printer's ink. The small town with its quick criticism and slow praise, the definite establishment of a place in the community, the bigness of small things and little people give this color and wide appeal.

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Publisher: Macrae-Smith

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1951

Categories: NONFICTION