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Died. Daniel Berkeley Updike, 81, typography expert, historian of printing (Printing Types-Their History, Forms and Use), founder of the Merrymount Press; in Boston. Greatest U.S. printer, he put legibility above decoration, was an outstanding influence on modern printing development...
...have made. You printed a poll of a newspaper, an extremely small weekly, which is circulated in Great Falls, Mont. I have been told it does not issue more than 125 copies, probably not more than 250 at the very most. You can check this up with the printer...
...publisher of magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including a Mickey Mouse weekly with a circulation of over 400,000; Prèsse-Publicité, sort of a French combination of Editor & Publisher and Printer's Ink. Reason for these successes, says Winkler, was his adoption of U.S. editorial and advertising techniques rather than the venal methods of the kept French press...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
When the inflation hit Berlin, it seemed perfectly obvious to Koppell that the way to make money in an inflation is to print it. So he called on the Government, landed a contract to print paper marks. "We got through the inflation by paying ourselves," says Koppell. Often the printer's bill was more than the value of the printed marks...