For ten months the U.S. press has watched a forced adventure in journalism—newspapers produced by Vari-Type, without benefit of striking printers or linotype machines. Last week, in New Haven, the oldest U.S. college daily carried the experiment a step further. In its first issue of the new college year, the Yale Daily News (est. 1878) came out in a new dress that combined Vari-Type with photo-offset printing,* the first U.S. daily to do so.
The undergraduate boards that run the News had long yearned for a printing plant of their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have...
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