Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dorothy Parker, funny vulgarienne. was awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies...
...Croskery; l.t., W. W. Mein Jr.; l.g., T. E. Covel; c., Howard Ulfelder; r.g., A. H. Parker, Jr.; r.t., R. A. Dunn; r.e., C. W. Wickersham. Jr.; q.b., W. E. Hutchins; l.h.b., D. R. Weir; r.h.b., Frank Watt; f.b., Bookman Pool...
...dramatic editor of the Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." Since then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...
...again. As the charity auction began he bid in for 150 guineas ($763) a letter written by Oliver Cromwell to the Admiralty. Then the original manuscript of his own one-act play The Twelve Pound Look was offered, Barrie watched in silent complacence while bid capped bid until Manhattan Bookman Gabriel Wells took it for 2.300 guineas...
...expected, Arthur Burton Rascoe resigned as editor of The Bookman because of "amicable differences" with Publisher Seward B. Collins. The two of them began a ludicrous career with The Bookman when the latter bought it from Publisher George H. Doran (TIME, Sept...