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...only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which beats the crossword puzzle-the game of identifying new departments by their initials...
...Abolition of the Arabic alphabet and substitution of the Latin in a nation-wide drive so intensive that Dictator Kemal himself taught alphabet classes of high Turkish officials...
...other times Typographer Goudy has been far more specific. His two major works, The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, are required reading for all apprentice printers, advertising agents, architects' draughtsmen. He has no idea how long it may take him to design a new alphabet. One of his most successful fonts, Hadriano, started with a rubbing taken from an inscription in the Louvre when guards were not looking, finished by 3 a. m. the next morning...
...Camelot, Fred Goudy's first font, he sold to a Boston firm for $10. Type founders who wish to buy a new Goudy alphabet today must pay $1,000 to $5,000 and in addition collect royalties for Goudy for its use outside the foundry...
...Says Teacher Macy: "A less vigorous child could never have done what she has done, and a less robust woman than I was would have gone to pieces under the strain." Her first job was to establish communication, which she did by teaching Helen the manual (finger) alphabet. In three years Helen had made such strides that the U. S. press had picked her up as a prodigy. Annie and Helen went north, lived for some years on "the capricious bounty of the wealthy." Then a fund was established; they settled down to get Helen through Radcliffe College. After...