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COLLECTED POEMS-Kenneth Fearing -Random House...
...muddy Washington there was disappointment, doubt, ill will over his failure. So Whitney went to the White House with a boxful of ten gunstocks, ten barrels, ten triggers, etc., let President John Adams, General William North, Thomas Jefferson, other awed officials choose at random the parts from which a single excellent musket was quickly assembled. It was an unprecedented event in military and industrial history. The Government leniently extended Whitney's contract. His machine shop hummed...
...trade patter for out of print). They saw nothing funny about it. "It is," said Ben nett Cerf, publisher of Random House's $3.50 edition of Donne, "a distressing story." Almost as distressed was the Ox ford University Press, which publishes two editions of Donne's poetry, an edition of his prose...
Publisher Cerf had no such hopes. Smart Random House had caught on to the Donne boom as soon as it began, promptly ordered 1,500 sheets of its Nonesuch edition from England. Just as promptly the Nazis bombed them out of existence. Says Publisher Cerf: "I know for sure that no sheets of the Nonesuch Donne exist in England." Whether the plates also had been destroyed, he was not sore...
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG-Dr. Seuss -Random House...