Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Seward Collins, 37, onetime editor & publisher of The Bookman, editor of the American Review; and Mrs. Dorothea Brande, his able associate editor, author of the best-selling Wake Up and Live!; last month; in Manhattan...
...locality (see p. 30). Last May time came for a change in the editorship of the Jesuits' able weekly, America, run for eleven years by Rev. Wilfrid Parsons S. J. This slight, grey-haired father yielded his place to Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot S. J., lecturer and bookman. Last week Father Parsons was appointed professor of European history at Georgetown University's graduate school, turned up there at once...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
Nelson Doubleday, not through his book stores but through his mail order sales & book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged...
...editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher Adolph Ochs so far foreswore his prejudice against signed columns as to spread a boxed daily review over the top of three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like few others, Bookman Chamberlain has resisted the pressure to submerge his style in the turgid stupidity of the Times. Conscientious, he spends about five hours a day reading, three more writing. Healthy, pink-cheeked, he wears a hat only in downpours. He plays tennis summer and winter, hard and often, with his smart...