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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divided into three arts--silverware, furniture, and paintings, the collection was gathered together by a committee of graduates to exemplify the type of artistic endeavor and domestic arts and crafts common to New England during the years...
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...
Other major newspapers which have changed type faces for the better in the past twelvemonth: Boston Herald and Traveler and Transcript; Chicago Herald & Examiner and Tribune; Detroit News; Minneapolis Star; Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch...
...Author: Dr. David Seabury's real name was Dresser until he legally changed it to his mother's maiden name. Born in Boston, he published How to Worry Successfully on his 51st birthday. Previously he wrote four volumes of the same type (Unmasking Our Minds, Growing into Life, What Makes Us Seem So Queer, Keep Your Wits). Educated at Boston's Chauncy Hall School, in Florence, London, Paris, Munich, Rome and Harvard, Dr. Seabury began practice as a psychologist in Manhattan at the age of 29, became consulting psychologist for New York City in 1921. Married...