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Bill Walsh [1961-0] American

Rank: 103
Editor, Coach

William Ernest Walsh was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

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Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.		101
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.		102
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.		103
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.		104
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.		105
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.		106
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.		107

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