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Wiese went to New York in 1926 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin, a letter of introduction to book critic Harry Hansen and an itch to edit. Hansen introduced him to McCall's Editor Harry Payne Burton, who hired him. A few months later, when the temperamental Burton left, William B. Warner, president of McCall's board, asked young Wiese to tell him in writing what ought to be done to improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after...
After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...
Opinion on these measures was varied and led to many warm exchanges during the course of the discussion. Given especial emphasis were such proposed labor regulations as the Case Bill and the Ball-Burton Bill, whose mention aroused charges of "union busting" from pro-laborites...
...Burton Fulton, Polly's self-made father who zoomed from small-town hardware dealer to bigtime industrialist. He is Polly's hero and apparently Marquand's as well. B.F. is kindly, practical, knows how to get along with people and make money. His thinking never goes deeper than: "Any boy has a chance in America if he only sees the picture ... if he only sees the picture." He never does understand why Polly should want to ditch the Yale-bred, well-to-do childhood sweetheart she is engaged to and marry dimeless, academic New Dealer Tom Brett...
Fine Points. In Washington, Motorist William H. Burton committed 34 traffic offenses in ten minutes, got fined $1,375, drew a 495-day jail sentence when he could...