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Ogilvy's first story was headlined in bold red ink: "Stock show managers working like beavers; rapidly getting ready for exposition that means so much to western breeders; how to prevent horses slipping on streets." He has been writing similar stories ever since, is a shrewd judge of horseflesh
...Bounty books (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island), has struck off a happy character in his bland, blue-eyed old surgeon. If its 18th-Century flavor is not distinguished, neither is it strained, and the same goes for Warren Chappell's pen-&-ink illustrations. Now 53, with a son of 14, lean Norman Hall still lives at Papeete, Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff went to be at peace after fighting through the last war. Tahiti being a French possession, their remoteness from the modern world is no longer what it used...
Hendrik Willem Van Loon is a big, cheerful, childlike Dutchman with a flair for historical baby talk. He illustrates his genial versions of the horrors of human history with squiggly, screwy pen-&-ink drawings; spices them with amiable prejudices (sample prejudices: against Bushmen, missionaries, Painter Paul Gauguin). In 1921 Author Van Loon hit his historical stride with The Story of Mankind. Last week he confined himself to The Story of the Pacific...
...fast, non-smudge printing, various means have been devised to make ink dry almost instantly when it hits the paper-absorption, evaporation, oxidation, polymerization (molecular clustering). In the "flash-dry" process, the newly printed paper passes between jets of flame and the liquid part of the ink ignites with a flash, leaving a dry residue. The June Technology Review (M. I. T.) describes a new "frozen" ink for porous papers like newsprint. The ink is solid at room temperature. It is fed like lumps of coal into the press, which heats it to fluidity, at 200° F. On reaching...
...better chance to make the movies than a producer's girl friend. Novelist Field's husband, Arthur Pedersen, is a Hollywood literary agent, and in the early summer of 1938 galley proofs of the novel were at all the big movie plants before the ink was dry. As it turned out, the script was the prima donna of the show from start to finish...