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In m o s t British offices they sit at a group o f tables o n their o w n , facing the r o w s o f sub-editors desks arranged in front o f them. B y this seating arrangem e n t production executives have c o m e to be k n o w n , in Fleet Street, as the "back bench". This term, like so m a n y in newspapers, has been adopted as a convenient time-saver and because o f its ability to c o n v e y a great deal o f information, speedily, to the initiated. A n e w s editor could tell a reporter "The deputy night editor wants to see y o u about a query o n y o u r story".

A n d the announcement o f the theory o f relativity was greeted w i t h the classic line E I N S T E I N CATCHES LIGHT B E N D I N G . N a m e s o f statesmen or other w e l l - k n o w n public figures often cause sub-editorial anguish because o f their length. , M a o , and D r A . S o m e sub-editorial contracti o n quickly acquire popularity and during his presidency M r Eisenshower was happily and permanently established as Ike. As s o o n as all the c o p y , for headline and story, is ready the sub-editor sends it to the c o m p o s i n g r o o m w h e r e it is set up in type.

W i t h i n o n l y a margin o f minutes to edition time he must have a story prepared and headlines 46 THE SUB-EDITOR written. U n d i v i d e d concentration is called for and m a n y people visiting a newspaper office for the first time are astonished by the cloister-like silence and calm that seems to pervade a sub-editorial r o o m . " T h e anxious efforts are g o i n g o n in men's brains and the o n l y outward signs are the scurrying pencils and the rapid screwing up and tossing a w a y o f paper as a hard-working subeditor discards c o p y for a headline that fails to satisfy h i m .

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