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...music; those of George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, each extremely successful in itself. "They make great variety and a good combination," he continued. "Another innovation is that the story is based on reality. I have found out that the American public appreciates a sensible plot more than the general blurb we used to present years ago. That whole West Point affair was true, you know. We therefore thought the scenery should be real too. The music is also more coherent with the plot...
...unwraps it. On p. 93 she gets down to reading it. On p. 180 she has finished. Then there are 109 more pages. The novel-that is to say-consists of interpolations: the fleeting memories and thoughts of Haeckla. To put it another way the cover blurb quotes Miss Chilton as saying that this is "a melodrama of the intellect." For an embryo novelist to attempt a plan so diffuse and snatchy is more than bold. To pull it off without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis...
...Stephenson had really lived in Dallas, and so had Hiram Evans, dentist, salesman, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. They used to work together. The Wizard told Mr. Stephenson the system and the blurb of the K. K. K. They hatched a scheme. For four years after that, D. C. Stephenson moved among the virgin fields of Indiana, getting members for the Klan. For every $10 initiation fee he was paid $4. He took in several hundred thousand members and made so much money that he got into trouble with the national Klan.* He was ready, he thought...
Your statement as to the editorial in the Atlanta Journal is unbelievable as it is beyond my imagination to visualize an editor so rash as to publish an advertising "Blurb" in his editorials. The same paraphrase has been appearing in some of the small local papers of this vicinity for some months past and as a paid advertisement of the Pinkham Co. I might also say that it has appeared in the joke department of the Journal...
...Harvard University. Nor is there any reason for a quick choice. Mr. Lowell is still President of Harvard, and until his term is at an end he will so continue. In the meantime the university grows and prospers, not alone financially but intellectually and spiritually, all section men land blurb writers to the contrary not withstanding