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...comparing two such behemoths among books, statistics and random samplings become a necessity. On this level, the new dictionary suffers everywhere. William Allan Neilson's 1934 edition contains 600,000 entries, while Philip Gove's 1961 contains only 450,000. Since Gove's staff catalogued 100,000 new words this time, a quarter of a million words must have been dropped from the second edition. For years, Webster's unabridged has listed more words than any dictionary in any language. Now, because of scientific arrivistes to the English vocabulary (like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis) Webster's no longer commands the serious interest...
...William Allan Neilson, out of a humane regard for the history of our language, extended the scope of the second edition as far back as 1500. He also provided readers with a complete Chaucerian vocabulary. Philip Gove has chosen to eliminate all words obsolete before 1740. The damage done to the study of Tudor and Stuart literature is not easily calculated. Such a policy destroys any claims to scholarship Webster's might make. No matter how many experts and Ph.D's spent their time writing definitions for this new lexicon, the fact still remains that 250,000 words...
...Great Partnership. Inevitably, there was a divergence of thought. To Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Allan Nevins, the U.S., in determining its foreign policy, has not paid sufficient attention to "reasonable" overseas reaction. "The U.S.," he says, "is now the leader of the free world. With this leadership rests a great responsibility. Remember, Australian boys. South African boys, Israeli boys may die as a result of the actions we take. This is a great partnership, and we are not by any means running a foreign policy for ourselves alone." Editor-Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal emphatically agrees...
Though his longtime friend and Man Friday Allan Searle reported him "not at all well," Somerset Maugham, 87, was, when up to it, honing the razor's edge of his autobiography. Maugham, who has written more "absolutely last" works than many another author has produced in a lifetime, had originally earmarked the autobiography for posthumous publication, but found himself bloodying so many colleagues that he has gamely decided to hustle it out as soon as possible. "If the autobiography is published after his death," explained Searle, "they might well pull him out of his grave...
...Bird Dogs. The Murchisons' victory on Allan Kirby's home grounds was dramatic notice of the changing role of Texas in the U.S. economy. Easterners still like to think of Texans as illiterate oil millionaires who wear ten-gallon hats-and, when they are in Wall Street looking for money, some Texans shrewdly play the expected part. Says Dallas Millionaire Trammell Crow: "I know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like...