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<div>Bingo! Tom wins the prize!! That's it.</div>
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<div>"30," (which was a telegraphers' signal for end of
dispatch) was how we used to end stories, but I was referring
specifically to icons (little airplanes, a black dot, etc.) Thanks to
all.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Bill</div>
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<div>At 10:47 -0400 9/19/07, Tom Pixton wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I call it a finial, a term I learned from
T.J. Lyons, a famous old-school Boston typographer with whom I worked
in the 80s.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:36 AM, William T G
Litant wrote:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear all:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm trying to remember the
editor's/printer's term for an icon placed</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>at the end of an article to indicate its
termination. Can anyone</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>recall? I think we discussed this a few
years ago, but I can't recall</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>the answer.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Best,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Bill</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>--</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>William T.G. Litant</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Communications Director</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Aeronautics and Astronautics
Department</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>and</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The Partnership for AiR Transportation
Noise and Emissions Reduction</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Massachusetts Institute of
Technology</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>77 Massachusetts Ave.
37-395</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Cambridge, MA 02139</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="mailto:wlitant@mit.edu">wlitant@mit.edu</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>(617) 253-1564</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tom Pixton</blockquote>
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href="mailto:tpixton@mit.edu">tpixton@mit.edu</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Publishing Services Bureau</blockquote>
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