The Spirit Was There--Atempting to satisfy some five and a half million news-hungry metropolitan New Yorkers with 5,000 copies of a university undergraduate newspaper will not work out, either physically or arithmetically. However, the spirit was there when editors of the Harvard University Crimson flew here today from Cambridge, Mass., with 5,000 copies of their paper. Here, managing editor George S. Abrams, left center, holds up copies distributing them in the Rockefeller Center area. Extreme right, helping Abrams is Milton Gwirtzman of Rochester, N.Y., Gwirtzman is editorial chairman of the paper.

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Title:
The Spirit Was There--Atempting to satisfy some five and a half million news-hungry metropolitan New Yorkers with 5,000 copies of a university undergraduate newspaper will not work out, either physically or arithmetically. However, the spirit was there when editors of the Harvard University Crimson flew here today from Cambridge, Mass., with 5,000 copies of their paper. Here, managing editor George S. Abrams, left center, holds up copies distributing them in the Rockefeller Center area. Extreme right, helping Abrams is Milton Gwirtzman of Rochester, N.Y., Gwirtzman is editorial chairman of the paper.
Title (alt.):
Extra! Extra!-News-hungry New Yorkers, without papers during a week-old strike, eagerly snap up 5,000 copies of the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily, flown from Cambridge today. Managing Editor George S. Abrams (left center holding papers aloft) and Editorial Chairman Milton Gwirtzman (extreme right) hand them out.
Description:
[Information from item housing] Labor: Strikes: Newspaper Workers: U.S.
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. December 1953]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Strikes
Newspaper industry
Places:
New York > New York
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 209 x 256 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/mc87t055w
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
[Additional information from item] Labor - Strike - Engravers
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001377_0002
Barcode:
39999088103591