Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week publishers' trade papers announced that New Directions of Norfolk, Conn, would soon publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever...
Publisher. Centre for experimental writing in the U. S. is New Directions. In a roomy rebuilt stable on his uncle's estate near Norfolk, Conn., James Laughlin IV runs New Directions between sessions at Harvard, where he has been in intermittent attendance for the last six years. Born in Pittsburgh 24 years ago, James Laughlin IV is a descendant of the founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.- a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), dark, personable young man with an earnest, attentive manner, a stubborn jaw and much practical business sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill...
Yale speakers will compete against the Crimson on October 31 in the Public Library auditorium, while trips to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk; Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Yale, Amherst, McGill are planned. No one will be allowed to participate in the spring H-Y-P Coolidge Prize trials unless he has tried out in the October or February Council trials. Membership will be restricted to 20 members this year...
...them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante he met in Norfolk a few days earlier...
...short visit to Norfolk, Virginia was made by the destroyers and then the ships proceeded to Annapolis. At Annapolis all students were members of an organized tour of the Naval Academy and its buildings, conducted by midshipmen at the Academy The students then enjoyed lunch in the large mess hall at the Academy. Those students having relatives and friends in Washington and Baltimore were allowed to go to those cities for a visit...