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When they opened their papers one morning last week, the 182,511 readers of the Los Angeles Times were pleased to see that that journal had treated itself to a new and more legible format and type dress. The new face which the Times turned to its public was the result of months of cogitation by sober-sided Publisher Harry Chandler and Gilbert P. Farrar, type consultant for American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads...
Fostered by oculists and type salesmen, the idea of lightening the newsprint page with bigger type is a definite trend in U. S. publishing, though few have gone so far as Los Angeles' Times. To revise its format, a paper of the Times's size starts by spending some $10,000 for new type matrices. Because the larger type prints less news per page, at least twro more typesetting machines are needed to compose the additional two or three pages. Such machines cost around $4,500 each, are manned by operators earning $58 to $65 per week...
...time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from California, 18-year-old Robert Riggs of Los Angeles, who has won eight major tournaments this season...
...most conscientious U. S. citizens is the confirmed U. S. practice of trying cases in the newspapers and on the radio while they are still sub judice in the courtroom. The 1934-35 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann carried the practice to almost unbelievable lengths. A.B.A., convening in Los Angeles last year, withheld indignant comment only because the trial was still sub judice. Last week a special Committee of the Criminal Law Section headed by onetime Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Oscar Hallam, felt free to let off steam...
Sued for Divorce. Jack Cornett Shuler, 18, son of California's radiorating Preacher Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob") Shuler; by Metta Nadine Shuler, 18; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport. She charged that on Father Shuler's insistence her husband "had to say good night to me and leave for home every night...