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...changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...
...Deacon Farrar finds the right tune for a paper not in his office (he has none) or his Laguna Beach, Calif, home but in a hotel room in the city where he is working. There, for a fee of about $100 a day and up, he cuts up heads from piles of old newspapers, pastes the letters into new arrangements, makes as many as 50 sample dummies. (Once a frightened chambermaid told the hotel manager: "There's a crazy man upstairs cutting out paper dolls.") Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect...
...Deacon A basketball five downed Eliot, 51 to 22, and the B quintet posted a 50 to 34 victory over the Elephant B's. Kirkland's swim team smacked Adams and Dudley by identical 30 to 18 scores. And the B and C squash squads downed Lowell, also by identical margins...
Lowell's swim team took two on the chin, losing to both Eliot and Leverett by default. Eliot downed Leverett, 32 to 16. Adams defeated Dudley by the same score before losing to the Deacon paddlers. Dunster's 29-19 triumph over Winthrop completed swim action...
Brethren-in-Law. In Milan, Tenn., when First Baptist Church Deacon Henry Martin reported that a car was blocking his driveway, the violator, another First Baptist Church deacon, was fined by the city judge, chairman of the First Baptist Church deacons...