Mavericks Mail Message List Font Chopped Off

Has anyone seen this?
After upgrading to Mavericks my friend now sees his Mail Message List rather limited. My question concerns the "From" text line and the "Subject" text line that appears chopped off in the screenshot shown above (I've blurred a portion of the addresses, and those messages really have "no content").
Any idea as to what would be causing this? The text font appears oversized and not in alignment with the date but I don't know how to fix it.
Thanks

Problem solved.
TinkerTool was installed and was configured with large text fonts. Changed font size back down to size 12 and everything now looks normal.

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