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...humoredly sorts out reluctant fact from ready fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted his nurseries in inviting places on the Ohio and Indiana frontiers. A dedicated Swedenborgian, he peddled his seedlings and otherworldly chatter among the settlers, wearing rags, walking barefoot even on ice, sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame was already spreading beyond the banks...
...philosophy and law at Yale, noted for such provocative books as The Taming of the Nations, The Meeting of East and West; and Adlai Stevenson, titular head of the Democratic Party. The four volumes are being heavily advertised, have been widely reviewed and have caused quite a bit of chatter. They are indeed newsworthy, not because they are good, but because-for all the work that has gone into them-they...
...letters columns of London's Sun day Times, traditional forum for readers who want to chatter about everything from EDC to lawn grubs, were pulsating with a lively controversy. The question: What is the most perfect line of poetry in the English language? Some of the entries: "The uncertain glory of an April day" (William Shakespeare), "If Winter Comes, can Spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), "Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold" (Algernon Swinburne), "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" (Alfred Lord Tennyson), and finally, the suggestion of a reader named W. A. Ingram...
Among U.S. newspaper columnists, Leonard Lyons, 47, is the No. 1 name-dropper. Columnist Lyons bears his title proudly, and his chatter about celebrities in his column, "The Lyons Den," syndicated to 74 dailies, earns him $65,000 a year. This week Columnist Lyons explained why name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks...
...most preoccupying subject in the U.S. book trade just now is the future of paperbacks-and the chance of finding a big market for paperback originals as well as for reprints. But in all the chatter, few ask the question: How good is the stuff being published? The talk runs, instead, to sales and distribution problems, to authors turning from established publishers to the better royalty deals and bigger circulation promised by the paperback newcomers...