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...Book-of-the-Month judges now number four: Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Novelists Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, Editor William Allen White. President Scherman has no say in selections, but chooses the "dividend" books...
...philology, political philosophy and Romance languages. He is also an inventor (a lens for color photography), businessman (he acquired half-interest in a writing-paper firm by lending a friend his World Series bonus nine years ago) and lawyer (for several winters with the eminent Manhattan firm of Satterlee & Canfield...
...money. As manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal since 1937, he boosted that paper's circulation from 39,000 to 55,000. Parish's happiest days had been spent on the Seattle Star, where he rose from newsboy to president and general manager of the Scripps-Canfield chain. In the days before the Scripps boys began meddling with the Star, he had built up the best circulation in the State...
Beatrice Clough Rathbone, visiting woman M.P., admired a V-for-Victory tie around the neck of New Jersey's Congressman Gordon Canfield in the House restaurant. Canfield promptly yanked it off, thrust it upon...
Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion for 29 years, she edited it from a circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking...