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Comment by Geoffrey M. Giordano on April 15, 2009 at 9:46

Check it out ... eight-story front with a four-column centerpiece, five elements over the fold and ample visual interest to create a simple bastard-measure grid that accommodates the entire presentation. Plus, a standalone at the bottom of the page for a ninth element. Again, I thank The Orlando Sentinel crews of the 1980s for inspiring pages like this; one of the greatest tools an editor had (back when the standard broadsheet page was 78 picas wide) was the 18p9 story with a two-line hed of 24 to 30 points. You anchor the bottom of the page with two or three of them, or sneak a more-important story into the strip with a more-moderate-than-six-columns lead.