When the venerable London Times took a new type dress, changed its 144-year-old masthead last October (TIME, Oct. 10), the editors assured startled readers that one tradition would remain inviolate: headlines would still be confined to one-column width. Last week the rule was broken for the first time. Across two columns "The Thunderer" thundered:
BRITISH NOTE TO AMERICA
DISASTROUS RECORD OF WAR
DEBT PAYMENTS
LAUSANNE SETTLEMENT IN
DANGER
SUSPENSION NEEDED FOR WORLD
REVIVAL
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