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...DIARY OF A COMMUNIST SCHOOLBOY-N. Ognyov - Payson & Clarke...
...DIMENSIONS-Paul T. Frankl-Payson & Clarke...
...years ago the road was bankrupt, made so by the panic of 1893. A foreclosure sale wiped out hobbling debts; a new management revitalized it. Someone with good persuasive powers brought the late Edward Payson Ripley (1845-1920), to be its president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present...
Africana THE AFRICAN A SAGA-Blaise Cendrars-Payson & Clarke ($5). American Negro music, African sculpture have been elevated in the not distant past to positions of considerable dignity. The music, once regarded as inconsequential if not less, is now found to contain certain definitely worthwhile qualities; the sculpture is not simply a collection of hideous absurdities but rather a notable form of art. What, then, of Negro literature and folklore? Translator Margery Bianco gives to us in The African Saga, from L'Anthologie Negre of Blaise Cendrars, roving student and compiler, a comprehensive reply to this question. Legends, stories...
...Goodwin '95 was appointed to the position of commissioner at the Department of Civil Service by Governor A. T. Fuller yesterday, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Payson Dana...