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{"value"=>"1968-1985", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/1985"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Memoranda, reports, and other papers about the page size, column width and length, type fonts and sizes, page layout and design, and typographical devices such as bullets, cross-lines, rules and boxes. The papers deal with the newspaper as a whole as well as with headlines and specific sections, pages and types of articles. Some correspondence with readers is included. Of special interest: Memoranda by John Pomfret, Louis Silverstein and others about a change to a narrower web to accomodate standard modular sizes of advertisements, and the resulting changes in type and in space allocations (1979-1981). Louis Silverstein's speech on newspaper design as reprinted in a publication of the Society of Newspaper Designers (1979). Louis Silverstein's proposal for a study of type and format (1974). Reports of a committee on typography (1969). Memoranda by John Werner and others in a proposal for a 9-column page (1968). Note: Papers concerning the change from 8 to 6 columns to the page are in the next folder, titled \"Type, Size and Design: Six-Column Format.\"</p>"}
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{"value"=>"See also: Advertising Acceptability, 1968-1984; New York Times Magazine, 1972-1986"}
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1968
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1985
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1968
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