The Press: Charming Gadgets

Reading his newspaper at the Columbia University Club in Manhattan where he resides, white-thatched Col. Lloyd Collis used to snort with annoyance every time he encountered a front page story "jumped" (continued) to an inside page. By the time he could find the continued part, his train of thought would have snapped. A civil engineer, a city planner, a man of action decorated by the U. S. and the City of Bordeaux for War service, Col. Collis took corrective steps. For three months he grappled with the problem; then he marched to...

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