Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Charles Santangelo, a magazine and comic-book printer of the Charlton Press Inc. of Derby, Conn. (Atomic Mouse, Hush Hush, Secrets of Young Brides), returned from vacation last February, he got a double shock. He heard reports that the firm's composing-room employees had been "molesting" women workers in the plant-patting them, whistling at them, and making gamy comments about what Brooklyn calls "the built." He also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations...
...into a consent order promising to mend its ways-went through the routine of a regular publishing house. But the difference between what an editor reported to Publisher Edward Uhlan and what Uhlan wrote to the author-in persuading him that it was worth his money to have his book published-was both funny and pathetic. Items from the FTC hearings...
Report to Uhlan: "This book is dated, dreadfully written and sentimental in tone ... I can't think of any general sales possibilities for this book . . . This is probably autobiographical fiction, since the details of military-school life are exhaustively gone into, and the author is far from inventive...
Report to Uhlan: "This is the worst book I have ever edited. It is incoherent, illiterate, without sense, reason, or simple understanding . . . This is literally an insane book on the need of men to look to God . . . It should be buried quickly, for the insanity and hysteria and illiteracy make it a menace to Exposition Press...
Uhlan to Author: "Your literary style is like the Gospels, and like the writing in the New Testament, it is clear, simple and sincere . . . Your book is for now and tomorrow...