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Best, David Barrett Haller '50 Cogan, John Francis, Jr. '49, Harrigan, John Eugene, Jr. '49, Holbrook, John Ginn '49, Keith, Charles Clarke, Jr. '51, Kample, George Frederick, 2d '50, Reed, Howard Shattuck '49, Spivak, Jonathan Martin '50, Thayer, Harvey Hill '50, Thorndike, John Lowell '49, Tootell, Geoffrey Howland '48 ocC, Edwards, Frederick Bulkeley, 3d '50 (Manager...
...Boston last week, Ginn & Co., largest publisher of schoolbooks in the U.S., rushed a revision of its bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm...
...never repay my debt to him. When I rewrote my doctor's thesis in book form, he offered to read it, and got Ginn and Company to publish it, and he reviewed it in the "Nation." Then he asked me to edit Gray's poems, and I mention this simply because Gosse's edition was so full of blunders and we were so diverted by them that I finally asked Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then...
...Elbert E. Ginn's letter from Stockton, Calif., in TIME, Feb. 17-what Jews are "inciting this country to war?" Does Bright Boy Ginn mean the same "Jews" who "incited" Germany to war against decency, honor and humanity, or the "Jews" who "incited" Italy to war against well-nigh impotent neighbors, or does he mean the "Jews" who "incited" Russia to war against Finland, or perhaps the "Jews" who drove Japan to war against China? Ginn probably reads too much Nazi propaganda. His letter mirrors only too clearly the . . . type of mind that slows up a country...
ELBERT E. GINN...