Ted Ammon

THE YEAR was 1958. A 14-year-old named Bobby Fischer wins the U.S. Chess Championship. Willie O’Ree is the first African-American to play in the National Hockey League. The U.S. Air Force loses a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Savannah, GA, and it’s never found. Poet Ezra Pound is ordered to be released from an insane asylum, and “that book by Nabokov” (“Lolita”) is published in the United States. And, in Philadelphia, a 34-year-old man named Irvin Borowsky published the first issue of Printing Impressions. The industry, this magazine—indeed, our nation and world—have undergone dramatic transformations over the last 50 years. Our publication, just

By Erik Cagle Say what you want about 2002, but very shortly you'll be able to say these two magic words: it's over. By nature, printers are optimists. So are trade magazine journalists. Thus, coming off a dreadful 2001, horribly punctuated by a reeling economy and the September 11 attacks, most industry people were forecasting a much-improved 2002. No one was ready to pop the champagne cork, but a marked improvement was in the offering, with a strong economic rebound catapulting revenues heading into 2003. Better days, like Godot, never arrived. To say 2003 cannot be any worse than 2002 is tantamount to whistling

LONG ISLAND, NY—Suffolk County Police have made no arrests in the murder of Theodore R. "Ted" Ammon, non-executive chairman of Moore Corp. Ltd. of Toronto and a key past figure with some of the biggest players in the commercial printing industry. Ammon was found dead in his East Hampton, NY, home October 22 by a colleague with Chancery Lane Capital—of which Ammon founded and was chairman—when he failed to show up at his midtown Manhattan office. He died of blunt trauma to the head, according to Suffolk County Detective Lt. John Gierasch. While attempted robbery has not been ruled out, nothing was found

BALTIMORE—Big Flower Holdings has consolidated the businesses of its three constituent divisions, TC Advertising, The LTC Group and Webcraft, relocated its corporate headquarters here, and changed its name. The moves are only the latest steps in the $1.8 billion company's efforts to reinvent itself, moves that have included taking the company private, and which officials say will soon include the elimination of the holding company structure and the closer coordination of the three businesses. In connection with the restructuring, CEO Ed Reilly has resigned, though he will continue as a consultant to the board of directors in connection with strategic matters. "We are