Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by spidery, snapping-eyed, sagacious Curator Paul Rivet, this exhibition is a worthy successor to the old Trocadéro's exhibit of comparative sculpture. Best idea: arranging showcases like text and footnotes in a book, one line of cases along left walls giving a bird's-eye impression of each period of each civilization, while other cases standing out from distant right walls contain complete museum collections. Smartest mechanical innovation: a show case which displays any one of nine related objects at the touch of a button, a great improvement on the usual system of showing...
...coloring, these pictures delight shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan Publisher Bennet A. Cerf, who last year published The Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week Publisher Cerf announced that his Random House will publish the Meyers drawings this year, with an introduction by Mr. Roosevelt-a Presidential picture book in a limited edition of 1,000 copies...
...another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
...Hollywood, Motion Picture Research Project, headed by Dr. Leo Calvin Rosten and financed by a Carnegie Corp. grant, took offices on Hollywood Boulevard, to conduct a year-long survey of movies, moviemakers and movie society, findings to be published in book form by Harcourt, Brace some time...
...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...