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...Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members of the American Association for State and Local History, his chief backer, and name writers, e.g., Carl Carmer, Roger Butterfield, who are also interested in livening up history. Editor Newton's biggest problem is to get his scholarly contributors to write a colorful style instead of "plodding into the facts and proceeding in dull and orderly fashion to the conclusion" and to get the articles in on time...
...folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
...idea while listening to the radio the Thursday the President died. By the weekend his staff had rounded up, whipped into shape and sent to the printers the scripts of radio broadcasts, newspaper obituaries, selections from Roosevelt speeches, appropriate verse (including a made-to-radio-order poem by Carl Carmer and an old one by the late Stephen Vincent Benet), a hurriedly updated appraisal of Roosevelt by Historian Henry Steele Commager. As an enterprising stunt (print order: 300,000), Pocket Books' Memorial made publishing history...
...Radio MARCH OF TIME. Working with him is a large staff that includes an editor, two directors, three researchers, a full-time Washington correspondent and eight writers. One of these writers is John McNulty, whose short stories you may have read in other magazines-another is Carl Carmer, professor, reporter, magazine editor, who has traveled through every state of the Union gathering material for his famous bestsellers: Stars Fell on Alabama, The Hudson, The Hurricane's Children, Listen for a Lonesome Drum...
...Carl Carmer, best-selling folklorist (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum) went to court with Publishers Farrar & Rinehart to settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided...