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...bequeathed $850,000 to the center. William Curtis Bok, his son, is heading a corporation which will manage the Curtis center on a non-profit basis. The finished edifice will house: an auditorium seating 4,000, for use by the Philadelphia orchestra, the Philadelphia Grand Opera company, the Philadelphia forum; a civic theatre seating 1,500; a "junior auditorium" seating 600, for recitals, lectures, rehearsals and "meetings of an intimate nature...
Purchase by Forum afforded faltering Century honorable refuge from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn...
...Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...same restless attitude of public mind that brought defeat to Century made for Forum's success. Sixteen years Century's junior, Forum was founded by Isaac L. Rice, edited first by Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, next by famed Walter Hines Page. A succession of editors led in 1923 to Mr. Leach, under whose direction Forum has more than tripled the highest circulation of Page's time...
...Manhattan's Cooper Union, largest free forum for the discussion of political and educational questions in the U. S., thousands of Manhattanites have heard Everett Dean Martin, director of the People's Institute, calmly, pungently discuss many a knotty point. Skeptical, intelligent, educated, he is a propagandist for the liberal attitude, for the cultured and inquiring mind. Now and then in his spare time he writes a book. Liberty, chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for June, was written last summer at Wauwinet, Nantucket Island. Confesses Inquirer Martin: "Our people have little of the philosophy of freedom...