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...observe as a footnote, in your . . . issue of Sept. 30, the statement that the Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's oldest continuing publication. This leads me to believe that you have inside information in regard to the discontinuing of the Almanac de Gotha which first appeared in 1764 and of the Annual Register, the first volume of which bears the date...
...just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine...
Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the way in an "enormous development" of educational films aimed at new, cheaper projectors; 2) editing a 63-volume, "popular-priced" ($200-$250) set of "the great books of the western world," first one-package edition of the "100 Books," many of which are out of print...
...Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...harp is a development of the warrior's or hunter's bow with one tense string, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica...