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The Legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny ‘S’

How typeface designers made room in <em>The New York Times</em> for the general-turned-president’s long last name.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Source: Library of Congress

Last Wednesday night, I was hanging around at home when a mysterious tweet crossed the transom. “If anyone knows this it’s you,” the message , with a link to that laid out a bit of a mystery: “Rumor says in the 1950s, NYTimes created a special skinny ‘S’ so they could fit ‘EISENHOWER SAYS’

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