Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This plan has been opposed in the past on the grounds that it gives fast typers an unfair advantage over students who are unable to type. Supporters of the plan reply that the present system gives an equally unfair advantage to speedy writers, and maintain that a choice between the two is much more equitable...
...your Dec. 17 article "The Delinquent Teachers": please add harassed parents to the list of long-suffering chambers of commerce, corporations and tourist bureaus which would like to staunch the flow of booklet-type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
...former capacity), and offers a purple-and-cerise tentlike décor that creates a definite harem effect. However, the emphasis is still on good dance music (next attraction: Xavier Cugat); rock-'n'-roll is banned, and Owner Brecker hopes to move on to a whole new type of clientele. The old Roseland was advertised only in the tabloids, but the new establishment will run regular ads in The New Yorker, where, presumably, they will appeal not only to the "poor clerks" but to the college prom trotters, eggheads and exurbanites as well...
Died. William Addison Dwiggins, 76, top-ranking U.S. type designer, who produced the clean, legible Metro newspaper type and the Caledonia and Electra book faces, fulminated at U.S. banknote design: "It is worth its face in gold, but my God, what a face!", wrote the authoritative book, Layout in Advertising; after a stroke; in Hingham, Mass...
...happily to life. With her high-styled eeriness, her split-second vagueness, Actress Winwood could impose a sense of drawing-room comedy on a Laundromat, and does it all the better in a library. Though not a thriller, Speaking of Murder, as Broadway's only example of the type, should provide relief to those who crave a thriller until an actual thriller comes along...