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Also called ”human interest” story. See page 224.

=Filler.=--A story of doubtful news value included for lack of better news in a column or section of a paper. The so-called ”patent insides” in country weeklies and small dailies are known as fillers.

=Flash.=--A brief telegraphic message sandwiched between two sentences of a running story, giving the outcome before it is reached in the story: as, ”Flash--Smith knocked out in fourteenth round,” when the reporter's story has got only as far as the eleventh round; or, ”Flash--Jury coming in; get ready for verdict,” thrust into the body of a story a reporter is sending about a murder trial.

=Flimsy.=--Thin tissue paper used in duplicating telegraphic stories as they come off the wire.

=Flush.=--On an even line or margin with.

=Follow Copy.=--An instruction, written on the margin of ma.n.u.script, to the compositor that he must follow copy exactly, even though the matter may seem wrong.

=Folo.=--An abbreviation for _follow_, marked at the beginning of stories to indicate that they are to follow others of a similar nature: as, ”Folo Suicide,” meaning to the bank-man, ”Put this story in the form immediately after the one slugged 'Suicide.'”

See page 15.

=Form.=--An a.s.semblage of type, usually seven or eight columns, locked in a chase preparatory to printing or stereotyping.

=Fudge.=--A small printing cylinder and chase that can be attached to a rotary press; used for printing late news. See page 18.

=Future Book.=--The book in which the city editor records future events: as, speeches, conventions, lawsuits, etc.

=Galley.=--A long, shallow, metal tray for holding composed type.

From the type in this tray the first or _galley proof_ is pulled for corrections.

=Galley Proof.=--An impression made from type in a galley.

=Gothic.=--A heavy, black-faced type, all the strokes of which are of uniform width.

=Guide Line.=--See _Catch Line_ (2).

=Hanging Indention.=--Equal indention of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which extends one em farther to the left than those succeeding.

=Head.=--Abbreviation for _headline_.

_Drop-Line Head_

SECOND YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR OPENS TODAY

_Pyramid Head_

Clash between Germany and Russia Occurred August 1, 1914

_Cross-Line_

END NOT IN SIGHT

_Hanging Indention_

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