M’Nutt?? Did they run out of little c’s or was their headline moonlighting from VARIETY?
They apparently didn’t have Mac and Mc in large type. Note how the headlines always say “M’Arthur.”
In counting headlines, the -c- would count one, while the -’- would count one-half. They ran out of room on the one-column headline. Now that text can be electronically sized, I doubt they even teach counting headlines any more. Most lower case letters are 1 (i is one half, lower case l might be). Most upper case is 1.5, Upper case W and M count 2. You know what count fills a column for each type size. You want to come as close to a full line as possible.
So using a -c- there would have mean a complete re-write.
And that’s probably more than you want to know about the archaic practice of counting headlines.