I had to go through his explanation twice before I could see the alignment problem. If this is a forgery, it is “nearly” perfect.
The information is questionable if the neighbor is correct, but the misalignment is something that always struck me as odd. ESPECIALLY given in 1961 the newspaper wasn’t designed on computer, but on a typeset.
Can an expert on typeset tell me if you can misalign the columns that way? Because from my memory of it, it must be level all the way across, it’s not like you have the columns vertical and can make them not line up. In a typeset, the page is lined up all the way across, but the words were columnized.
I hope I am explaining that right.