Word: almanacs
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When it was first conceived in 1970, The Almanac of American Politics was to have been a brief statistical study of a few congressional districts where antiwar candidates stood a chance of winning. By last summer it had grown to 1,030 pages, containing statistics and informal, readable political summaries of every state and congressional district in the union that had never been available before in one package...
POOR RUSSELL'S ALMANAC by RUSSELL BAKER 212 pages. Doubleday...
Poor Russell's Almanac, Baker's fifth collection of columns and comment, is composed largely of such ticklish visions. The more painful versions often have to do with a variety of middie-aged, middle-management saps who have congealed in mid-marriage and mid-mortgage. "Misery no longer loves company," says Baker. "Nowadays it insists upon...
...have developed since the first issue went to press in 1923. When TIME started out, the research staff consisted of a single puzzled but mightily determined young woman, who clipped newspaper articles and mined whatever information she could from a bookshelf that held a dictionary, a thesaurus, an almanac and a world history book. As TIME'S research efforts became more sophisticated, so did the girls-and their titles. At first they were titled "secretarial assistants"-but known less formally as "checkers." Eventually, TIME'S founders, Henry Luce and Briton...
Like its Japanese parent, the new PHP is similar in size to Reader's Digest. But in other ways it resembles no journal of the Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...