The Press: Color in the Times

To the agent at White Horse, to the flight commander at Aden, to the pilot boat on the Hooghly, to the superintendent at Kimberley, to the colonel's lady at Simla, to thousands of others a treat was on its way last week. The big weekly edition of the august London Times was carrying, in addition to its eight pages of pictures, eight pages in rotogravure and eight more pages in color. It was the first time that any English newspaper had incorporated either gravure or color as a regular feature.

The innovation employs...

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