The image above is example | (4) | and is a pyramid head in three parts which says | 40 MORE GRAFTERS | TO BE ARRESTED | IN PITTSBURG |.
Figures for numbers under ten appear less frequently in headlines, particularly at the beginning of a deck, but again the practice in regard to this usage is not uniform. Newspapers, like the New York Evening Post, that have but one line in the top deck of their large headlines, not infrequently use figures below ten at the beginning or anywhere in the first deck. With the greater space of the drop-line head it is easier to avoid small figures.
The division of words in headlines so that one syllable is in one part of the deck and one in another part, is to be avoided. Similarly, hyphenated words, or two words constituting a name or term each word of which is not clear alone, should not be divided between parts of the top deck. The following four heads illustrate these undesirable divisions:
The image above has examples | (1) | and | (2) | of undesirable word divisions. Example | (1) | is a drop-line head in two parts. The first line of the head ends with the first syllable of a divided word. It says | TROOPS SOON TO EM- |. The second line says | BARK FOR PANAMA |. The full head should say | TROOPS SOON TO EMBARK FOR PANAMA |.
Example | (2) | is also a drop-line head in two parts. The first line ends with the hyphen that joins the hyphenated term | ALL-AMERICAN |. It says | CAMP PICKS ALL- |. The second line says | AMERICAN TEAM |. The full head should say | CAMP PICKS ALL-AMERICAN TEAM |.
The image above has examples | (3) | and | (4) | of undesirable divisions. The first of these is a drop-line head in two parts. It is intended to say | CUT IN SCHEDULE “K” IS PROBABLE | but the construction of the drop-line head places the word | SCHEDULE | on the first line and the label | “K” | on the second line thus creating an undesirable division.
Example | (4) | in the image is also a drop-line head in two parts. It is intended to say | CURLERS PLAN BON SPIEL IN MARCH | but the construction of the drop-line head places the word | BON | on the first line and | SPIEL | on the second line thus creating another undesirable division.