| 21. | Martinez will make you laugh and cry at his wry look at an era long gone from today's city rooms.
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| 22. | Wally once rode a bicycle straight through the city room as reporters and copy editors stood to cheer him on.
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| 23. | So successful were Shipman's recruiting efforts in Washington, in fact, that he practically denuded every city room in the capitol.
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| 24. | For the first time in over 200 years since work began, The City Rooms is now being used as first intended.
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| 25. | But seeing these tough-minded guys in the old Sun-Times city room who used words the way carpenters use tools was amazing.
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| 26. | It was submitted by a free-lance black reporter who left his copy with a security guard seated outside the city room.
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| 27. | His reaction to the city room was love at first sight : " It was where I wanted to stay forever ."
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| 28. | Such glad eruptions could never happen today in any American city room, least of all the city room of The New York Times.
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| 29. | Hemingway said that a city room was a great place to learn to write, if you knew enough to get out in time.
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| 30. | With hotel occupancy running more than 84 percent much of the year, New York City room rates now average $ 200 a night.
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