This photo appears to have been carefully posed. Or maybe like a scene showing two actors on the set for a noirish 1950s movie. In reality, it's neither. It is a candid shot of Sid Varney (left) the Linotype machine operator for The Dartmouth, the student newspaper of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire), reviewing a sample from the initial run of the June 17, 1968, edition for any serious flaws, while the pressman, Ira Holmes, waits for the go-ahead to restart the temperamental 19th Century flatbed printing press. I was the night editor for that edition and unless Sid found some egregious error that required me to compose a new headline, or something of that ilk, my work was done. Though Sid and Ira obviously were aware that I had been shooting pictures, they were completely oblivious to me as I peered at them through the viewfinder of my Honeywell Pentax SLR and waited for the right time to snap the shutter. Alas, that particular moment turned out to be so decisive that the photograph looks set up.