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Next day Hoyt began tinkering with the Post's horrendous, circus-poster typography, told his editors to shorten the wordy leads on news stories, stop "jumping" stories from Page One. He quickly won the women. First he abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then he ordered women's lounges installed at once. He gave backshop employes a $3-a-week raise; the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, caught flatfooted, had to follow suit. Last week Hoyt sent a legman legging it on a 13-state assignment to retrieve its famed regional coverage...
...square inch of canvas (from $350 to $6,000), Léger's solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...doors of the University of Tokyo's Oceanographic Institute, a U.S. Navy captain found a poster, lettered in English...
...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
Sixty would be Yardlings turned up at New Lecture Hall at the appointed hour, 8 'o clock in the evening. When nothing came off, 25 of the disappointed lads decided to gain revenge on Harvey Lyon '49, listed on the poster as "student assistant" to "Dean Kronum," fictitious signee to the poster; but Lyon, too, it appears, was a victim of the successful gagster...