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...TIME (Jan. 24) absentmindedly followed Who's Who and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which count Grover Cleveland twice-as both 22nd and 24th Presidents-thus make Herbert Hoover No. 31 and Franklin Roosevelt No. 32. But Harry Truman, with the backing of the Congressional Directory, has decided that he is the 32nd President...
...student of Latin at the age of eight, McColl had already read a 20-volume encyclopedia by that time, and moved on to reading the Encyclopedia Britannica for relexation...
...words filed from the Philadelphia convention last week were laid end to end, they would equal (in quantity, if not in information) about four volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Never before had a Republican convention been described by so many newsmen (1,600) in so many words (5,098,372).* Press, radio, newsreels and television not only outnumbered but outranked the delegates...
...quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know why ... I must read Jane Eyre . . . Played a little on the piano . . . badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday ... I will read the new version of the Bible . . . Encyclopedia Britannica [steadies] my nerves ... To bed early . . . shut my eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful maiden [but I] only saw [my wife] and Mamma . . . Sleep...
...keep it afloat Assistant Manager Charles F. Moberly Bell, onetime Cairo correspondent, teamed up with two high-pressure Yankee salesmen, Horace Hooper and William Jackson. They put the Times into the book business, with special editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Times Book Club. The Times won back its reputation chiefly by its foreign coverage, which it could ill afford...