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Have you ever noticed that the World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY...
Roslyn Heights, N. Y. The World Almanac's Editor Eastman Irvine promises no immediate change, although he hopes a brand-new Almanac cover will celebrate next year's World's Fair. He disclaims intentions of accuracy for his map, says it should be considered no more than a trade-mark...
...evening that the first issue went to press (and many press nights thereafter), the entire full-time staff got into a taxicab, carrying the entire editorial reference library (Who's Who, World Almanac, Congressional Directory} and drove to the printers on Manhattan's 11th Avenue...
...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
Contrary to popular belief, Nathaniel Ames, and not Ben Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...