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These and thousands of other neatly packed facts appear in a little red book, The Encyclopedia of Sports,* published last week by Cleveland-born, 53-year-old Frank G. Menke. longtime Hearst sportswriter. To investigate the present and past of the world's pastimes, Sportswriter Menke devoted 20 years, poked his nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist...
Died. Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley, 69, editor-in-chief of the Columbia University Press and of the 5,000,000-word Columbia Encyclopedia; after long illness; in Solebury...
...most outspoken supporter of Bridgman has been George Sarton, lecturer on the History of Science. Not only backing him in word, Sarton has already acted by refusing to cooperate with Germans putting out a new encyclopedia. He summed up his feelings with the terse statement, "I entirely approve of what...
...Encyclopedia Britannica of the music world is the late Sir George Grove's five-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Every 20 years or so the learned editors of Sir George's brain child rack their teeming brains and bring forth a new edition. Between these monumental foalings there is spawned a smaller fry of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias, offering fresher if skimpier information at more modest prices. For these, the 1938 birth rate has been the highest in years...
...past two months, three one-volume music dictionaries have seen the light. First to be delivered, the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians* was proudly fathered by Albert E. Wier with the collaboration of a 14-man editorial staff. A bouncing, 8¼-lb. infant, Wier's Encyclopedia made a few natural messes (misplaced Composer Robert Schumann, killed off very-much-alive Soprano Claire Dux), but otherwise bawled informatively along through 2,089 pages. In any ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume...