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A reply to an Exposition ad brings a circular that reminds the writer: "Until you are a published author, you will never be regarded as an author." It points out, quite rightly, that ordinary publishers are looking only for sure things, that an unknown beginner has a slim chance. Besides...
Ticket Printers. The New Haven railroad put into service in Manhattan's Grand Central Station two new automatic ticket-printing machines. Made by the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., the printers can turn out 650 different tickets to 160 destinations. The printers save the railroad the cost of stocking big...
3) Nevertheless, Ike has not made a firm promise to anybody that he will be home by any date. His staff in France is proceeding on the assumption that he means to stay. Last week Robert P. Burroughs of New Hampshire made public an Ike letter of Feb. 27 in...
The list of "bourgeois" books banned by Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James...
Four girls were awarded the Seven College National Scholarships, given by an independent committee and ranging in amount from 100 to 1820 dollars. Winners of the scholarships are Adrianne Ellesson, of Columbus, Neb, and Columbus High School, Ruth Grand, of St. Louis and the John Burroughs High School, Polly Lewis...