Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...
Editorship. When Edward Bok went to the Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis knew he had hired a crusading editor. Once he enlisted the aid of Dancers Vernon & Irene Castle to help stamp out the pernicious tango, turkey trot, bunny hug, supplanting them with the more sedate polka, gavotte and schottische. Evangelically he tried to keep drinking scenes from the fiction of his publication. He engaged a doctor to give advice to young mothers through the pages of the Journal. Some 90,000 babies were said to have been thus magazine-reared. Of his trials and triumphs...
Died. Edward William Bok, 66, publisher, philanthropist, onetime editor of The Ladies' Home Journal; of heart disease; on his estate near Lake Wales...
...apologized for via this most recent time-saver, which covers a veritable multitude of sins, among them "riding to bounds in a ballroom", "dismantling plumbing fixtures", "throwing potted palms", "setting fire to footmen", and "deposing mural moosehead in punch". Others, one hardly printable in a proper family journal, are listed to aid the social delinquent...
Another example of the ideals of fine printing from a distinctly commercial press is provided by the "Journal of John James Audubon made during his trip to New Orleans in 1820-1821." This was edited by Howard Corning '90, of the School of Business Administration staff, and was produced at the Plimpton Press in Norwood under the oversight of William Dana Orcutt '92, with the imprimatur of the Club of Odd Volumes, which is largely dominated by its Harvard members...