Word: buttitta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago appeared in the Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
...years Anthony J. Buttitta of Bizerta, Tunis, has been striving for a literary renaissance at Chapel Hill, N. C., where every three weeks he publishes Contempo. Contempo's editor considers his magazine ''an asylum for aggrieved authors," a paper dedicated to ''the reception of new ideas."' No contributions are paid for, but manuscripts have found their way to Editor Buttitta's offices from many a famed U. S. writer, including William Faulkner. Malcolm Cowley, Countee Cullen, Michael Gold, Sinclair Lewis, Lynn Riggs, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens...
...long ago Contempo moved from Chapel Hill to Durham, and a most embarrassing thing happened. Editor Buttitta lost his subscription list. Last week he was requesting his subscribers to send their names & addresses to him, please. Address Snow Building...