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English publishers used to say the same thing-until 1935. That year, in London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer...
...Craster, Bodley's Librarian from the Bodleian Library at Oxford, will be in Cambridge today to inspect the Widener Library. Additions and repairs are to be made ou the Bodley Library, and Mr. Craster has come to the United States to study the construction of numerous American libraries and gain some worthwhile ideas to take back to England...
...Spender - Stokes ($3.00). 8 AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF CHINA - Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall -Appleton ($4.00). 9 India- Sir Valentine Chirol - Scribner's ($3.00). 10 Asia - Herbert H. Gowen - Little, Brown ($3.50). 11 THE WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied writing it. Last week...
Jones and Putnam of Cornell will probably take again the first two places in the half-mile. Bodley of Pennsylvania, Dolan of Dartmouth, and Hayes of Princeton are apt to shut out the Harvard runners. Jones of Cornell will also run the mile and should have little difficulty in winning it. Taber of Brown, and Maderia of Pennsylvania will fight it out for the other places...
Putnam of Cornell jumped into the lead with the gun in the half-mile and it seemed as though he would maintain his position. Jones of Cornell and Paull of Pennsylvania started, but as they had run the mile before, it was not thought that they would place. Bodley of Pennsylvania attempted to pass Putnam at the beginning of the second quarter, but could not oust the Cornell man from the pole. Meanwhile H. Jaques, Jr., '11 had been running easily in third place followed by Jones. At the last turn the real test came, and Jones proved equal...