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...these businessmen. In one group are three onetime advertising men. Last spring they started the "Book of the Month Club." They engaged Editors Henry Seidel Canby and Christopher Morley (Saturday Review of Literature) and William Allen White (Emporia, Kans., Gazette), Columnist Heywood Broun (N. Y. World) and Novelist Dorothy Canfield, to be a committee to vote on new books each month. They notified the publishers that here was a fine chance for them. The book voted "book of the month" would gain distinction (publicity). Also it would be bought by the Club by the thousand to send to members...
Each month the selecting committee, composed of Henry Seidel Canby. Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White selects that book which in its opinion is from all angles the best of those published, and most representative of the proper trend in modern literature. This book is then sent to each of the 40,000 subscribers to the club...
Gore--Ends, Atamian and Whittemore; Tackles, Emigh and Pettee; Guards, Canfield and Remick; Center, Freedman; Quarterback Bell; Halfbacks, Lee-and Gray; Fullback, Nelson...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...