Size

Although a work of history was once condemned to go readerless because of a reviewer's remark--it was the only remark, in fact, that he made on the volume--that it weighed 14 Ibs.; although the publishers of the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica did not, by way of advertisement, call attention to the enormous bulk and displacement of the publication; although few pianos are sold simply on the strength of the fact that it takes eight men to move them, The New York Times, in its issue for Thursday, Oct. 16, issued the following gasconade:

A 52-PAGE TIMES Today's NEW YORK TIMES contains 52 pages--416 columns--and is the largest daily issue produced by THE TIMES.

The boast is legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with 30 and The Boston Transcript with 20.