Word: chipman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This graceful confession came last week from Publisher George H. Doran of Manhattan. His magazine is the Bookman (monthly). His editor is John Chipman Farrar. The purpose of the confession was to explain the sale of the Bookman to Burton Rascoe and Eeward B. Collins, for an unannounced sum. The new owners will commence with the September issue...
...myth that President Coolidge was born in Vermont; neither is it a fable that Vermont celebrated the 150th anniversary of its independence last week. John Chipman Farrar, earnestly playful editor of the Bookman, composed an ode to commemorate the event. An excerpt...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...
Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
Finally I think it is a pity that Mr. Chipman should disparage a scheme, about which he knows nothing, to promote an organization about which he appears to know less, before it has had any sort of trial here, while similar schemes have had valuable results elsewhere. DAVID P. KENNEDY...