Word: serializing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Died. Charles Scribner, 75, board chairman of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan, publishers and booksellers, founder ot Scribner's Magazine; of heart disease; in Manhattan. His most famed publishing contract: $1 per word to Theodore Roosevelt for serial rights to African Game Trails...
...story may or may not be an autobiography but it must deal with college life and college people; it must be a study of contemporary college life. The prize offered covers rights to serialize the story in "College Humor," publication rights and royalties. Motion picture and dramatic rights are reserved for the author. Moreover, both the book and the magazine publishers reserve the right to publish either in book or serial form, any of the novels submitted in the contest...
When findings of Messrs. Hartl and Ernst were made public, the firm names were concealed beneath serial numbers. Thus it was impossible to tell which employers demanded the longer hours and longer weeks, or to what extent U. S. Steel has carried the reduction of hours for which philanthropists have applauded the late great Steelman Gary...
...language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated Unconscious, jolted by some logophilous Birth-trauma into chronic serial extension." Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche...
...came of it. He founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats, a serial dime-novel of syphilis, appearing in Physical Culture. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, $2,000 fine. After he vainly appealed the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Wickersham remitted the prison sentence, but not the fine...