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...heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
...Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School for Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney, author of the section on Boxing in America in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mr. Tunney on the forthcoming Louis-Schmeling fight: "Schmeling really has no physical fortification which should prove impervious against the champion's attack, though he can absorb lots of punishment...
...pages in the new Sears, Roebuck catalogue, only four advertise books. But Sears, Roebuck is a big factor in one branch of the book business. Since 1920 it has owned a controlling interest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (total sales-1,000,000 sets). First published in Scotland in 1768, the Britannica came under U. S. ownership 35 years ago, barely squeezed through its 12th, 13th and 14th editions, was often rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin...
...pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor of physics at the University of London, editor for physics of Encyclopedia Britannica, author of The Structure of the Atom, The Atom, The Mechanism of Nature. Professor Andrade lists his recreations as "golf, poetry, collecting old scientific books and useless knowledge...
Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...