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...sense." He began his own counting, personally spent more than a year working on the letter G. Under his direction, 270 other scholars, who had landed on WPA projects during the depression, began doing the same for A to Z. They churned through such works as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Uncle Wiggily books, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Girl Scout Handbook. Last week, 15 years and 5,000,000 words later, the job was done...
...night of May 17, 1900, Victoria rejoiced. Her troops that day had relieved Mafeking, besieged seven months by the Boers. Though no great war, this had been the gravest challenge to Pax Britannica since Waterloo, four years before Victoria was born. On Mafeking night in the upper quadrangle of Windsor Castle, Eton boys sang patriotic songs for the old Queen. She sat by a window in the dusk, leaning out again & again to say "Thank you. Thank you from my heart." Many of the singing boys or their sons were to die in the two great wars to come...
...partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
...keep his editorial hand in, Dr. Fishbein was taking on more duties as consulting editor of Doubleday & Co. and its medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman...
Married. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, onetime boy prodigy of the educational world, who became president of the University of Chicago at 30 and chancellor (a specially created post) in 1945; and Vesta Sutton Orlick, 31, his secretary at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he heads the board of editors; each for the second time; in Washington Heights...