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...knew exactly to what degree such sales were due to faith, hope and advertising, and to what degree to U.S. book clubs. The clubs' tremendous sales machines, oiled with the prestigious praise of people like Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, were built to sell literary goods whether they were silk purses or sows' ears. In the marts of trade, if not of letters, 20 or 30 book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers...
Almost every detail of the La Salle Hotel tragedy was duplicated in miniature four days later when fire swept the 55-year-old, 150-room Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa. The Canfield fire also was discovered shortly after midnight in a cocktail room called the Red Lounge. It swept out to rage in the lobby, trapped 129 guests in smoke-filled rooms upstairs. Most escaped down ladders and fire escapes. Fifteen died that morning-two in attempting jumps into fire nets...
Robert warren Canfield...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower was so stirred that he forthwith invited Prime Minister Winston Churchill to send a British Parliamentary delegation to see Buchenwald. With them came a group of American Congressmen touring Britain. The visitors froze with horror. Said Sir Henry Morris-Jones: "It beggars description." Said Representative Gordon Canfield: "This is barbarism." Others would soon be coming to see as well...
...joined Novelists Dorothy Canfield and Christopher Morley, Litterateur Henry Seidel Canby, Informer Clifton Fadiman, as a life replace ment for the late Editor William Allen White...