Word: edition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...
...dean from 1907 to 1924 of the School of Fine Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George Sherman ("Dickey") Dickinson in music courses at Vassar Collegeildings in fashionable Rittenhouse Square, will take care of the curriculum, edit the Institute's monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime...
...admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen. He went to Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and which he made one of the great critical journals of all times. He returned to the U. S. at the outbreak of the War, which he loudly and persistently damned. A badly dressed little...
Fortuitously Marcus Daly then met Dr. John H. Durston, a learned philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work...
...Delacorte Jr., a publisher without a humorous magazine, sought out Norman Hume Anthony, a humorous editor without a publisher. Publisher Delacorte wanted to add a funny paper to his successful string of 17 Dell magazines.? But Norman Anthony, onetime editor of Judge and Lije, did not want to edit it. What he said that he said was as follows...