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BATTLE FOR MANHATTAN (128 pp.) -Bruce Bliven Jr.-Holt...
...WONDERFUL WRITING MACHINE (236 pp.)-Bruce Bliven Jr.- Random House...
...copies and their useless proliferation in innumerable filing cabinets, handed writers an alarmingly facile weapon of self-expression. Anybody who wants to know almost anything concerning the typewriter, can find it in Historian Richard N. Current's The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It and Journalist Bruce Bliven Jr.'s The Wonderful Writing Machine. Current's book is a detailed history of the typewriter's origins. Bliven's book is a livelier but less meaty study, bringing the story of the writing machine up to date with the latest electric model...
...Republic will be run entirely from Washington. In the shift to Washington, started more than a year ago, at least two editors will be replaced and a brand-new group of contributors will be brought in. Left behind will be Mr. New Republic himself, 62-year-old Bruce Bliven, a staffer ever since he was hired as managing editor 29 years ago by the late Editor Herbert Croly, the man who gave the magazine the prestige it has largely lost. Bliven, who became top editor in 1930 and steered the magazine through some of its best and worst days, stepped...
...some of the more expensive help? The list came down to half a dozen, but Johnson found himself caught in a tug-of-war between Straight and the American Newspaper Guild. Last week, when the six employees left, Edd Johnson walked out too. And faithful Bruce Bliven, who had stepped aside when Wallace came in, was now back running editorial matters...