Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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ARTHUR RACKHAM, His LIFE AND WORK by Derek Hudson (181 pp.; Scribner; $20), tells the story of the British insurance clerk who became one of the two or three finest illustrators of children's books. The biography is a loving quiet account of a quiet life, but the book's main distinction lies in the Rackham illustrations. Those for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows alone are enough to touch off shivers of nostalgia in all who knew them in childhood...
Unveiling a Woman. On other such coups, notably a Scribner's Magazine article that goaded the U.S. Treasury Department into breaking up a Government-bond racket that S. F. Porter exposed, Sylvia showed such flair that the Post ultimately decided her sex had become an asset. "I believe very definitely that the time has come for us to make capital of the fact that S. F. Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph...
...Government; Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, who have sided with Nixon in intra-Administration policy disagreements; and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson. Nixon also has high regard for Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon and Under Secretary of the Treasury Fred Scribner...
TREASURY: Anderson or Scribner...
...once held a poetry fellowship at the University of California. Leaving academe astride the flaring rationalization that "one should live at the center of experience of his time," he hit the road. He loafed, worked on road gangs, on farms, on beaches as a lifeguard. He published stories in Scribner's Magazine and the American Mercury. Following his Steinbeck period came his Hemingway period. Herridge enlisted in the Army Air Corps, flew missions over southern Europe. After the war, he padded around Greenwich Village, wandered into television ten years ago to beachcomb for money...