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Thirty years ago an itinerant bookkeeper from Shelbyville, Ill. settled down with his wife, the former Bertha M. Sprinks, and a font of type of his own designing to open a printing shop in Park Ridge, Ill. Last week printers, publishers, museum curators, editors, book collectors and art critics went to the New York Museum of Science & Industry in the Daily News Building to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of that event, to honor the onetime bookkeeper as the greatest type designer...
...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...
...reason for his diatribes. On Easter Day, 1800, the Lord Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
Recognition, with no strings attached. Nebraska's grey-thatched, vehement Senator George William Norris urged in Washington last week. Seasoned observers pointed out that the issue is actually not recognition but credits. Only in case the R. F. C. or some other great font of U. S. credit is opened to the Soviet Union would U. S. producers, still profoundly suspicious of Josef Stalin & Co., feel safe in accepting the flood of orders which Russia has stood ready for years to give on credit...
President Trippe's consternation was as nothing compared to the state of M. Andre Bouilloux La Font, managing director of France's Aeropostale, in Manhattan last week to work out with President Trippe troublesome details of their companies' routes in South America. (Pan American wants the privilege of a permanent base at Cayenne, French Guiana, where Aeropostale has exclusive flying rights.) M. La Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call...