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Daily Archives: June 27th, 2008

Fifty-Five-Year Stint

27-Jun-08

On June 19, 1953, Mario DiCrocco, four years transported to America from Italy began a career at The Advance, Staten Island’s longstanding daily newspaper. It’s been fifty-five years, a span that saw his work evolve from lead and ink, to paste-up and film, and then to keystrokes via computer pagination.
The composing room where [...]