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Modern and traditional architecture came slam-bang into dramatic contrast last week between the covers of LIFE. On eleven double-page spreads appeared eight plans for houses, four by "modern"' architects arrayed against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an...
National Educational Alliance is the idea of John J. Crawley, a Manhattan mail-order and subscription publisher. Observing that British bookstalls were selling H. G. Wells's Outline of History like hotcakes, in cheap, weekly, paper-covered installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between...
The first volume covered the Civil War years, Adams' marriage and his wife's death, his editorship of the North American Review, his disgust with Reconstruction politics and his travels in the South Seas. The present volume covers the panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, the Russo...
Last week, it appeared that Harper's was about to yield an inch. Beginning with the October issue, its deep orange cover is to be replaced with covers of varying hues. At the same time, it will begin a new department to be known as "One Man's...
Much has been written about Mont-Saint-Michel, the famous medieval abbey which covers a steep granite islet off the coast of France, and in summer is in turn covered with tourists. In Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres it has inspired a literary masterpiece. But although the...