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...Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), Jack Collings Squire, W. L. George, Llewelyn Powys. During his editorship, 54 books were dedicated to him. Orage now lives in Manhattan, lectures on the art of writing, on the psychological methods of Religionist Georges Gurdjieff (TIME, March 24). Other books by him: An Alphabet of Economics; Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age; Consciousness: Animal, Human and Superhuman; Readers and Writers...
...hang of half the alphabet...
When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend her $5,000,000 legacy from her husband against the children of the first Mrs. Croker. She became one of the largest landed proprietors of West Palm Beach...
...Circumferences." When Iowa's Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...
Worried Jugoslav elder statesmen reflected that if the Serbs become vexed at having to learn a new alphabet and turn from youthful King Alexander, a revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...