We owed much to the composing-room foreman (or "clicker"), the splendid Mr Benney, who quietly took every incompetence and inconsequence from the editorial staff.
Bailiffs led jurors to jury room where foreman wanted to take immediate vote ofGuilty Discussion was opened, and each juryman gave his opinion.
From his living room, the foreman said he believed that a retrial was "owed to the people," but he and other jurors also seemed to have some advice for prosecutors: Streamline the charges, drop some, pick your shots.
After a breakfast of fresh fruit, oatmeal and bran flakes (no sugar or salt anywhere to be found), the class is herded into a conference room, where Foreman and Earlene Vining, cofounders of Executive Development Systems, put on a performance that's part variety show, part televangelism.
And so, in a way, does Foreman.
Upon his retirement, he was an Executive Foreman in the composing room.
He was the Night Shift Executive Foreman of the Composing Room here at the New York Times.
The bride's father, who is retired, was the general foreman of the composing room at The New York Times in New York.
"A small building is a lot tougher to work on than a big building, because there's no room for anything," said Vincenzo Labarbera, the labor foreman at the job site for Barney Skanska.
The jurors were escorted to the jury room, a small, unadorned space, where Garrison, the foreman, let everyone collect themselves.
