Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was apparent how the Post had profited from its new feature. Publishers had never felt able to buy space in the magazine. Now Macmillan, Scribner, Houghton Mifflin and Little, Brown & Co. had been persuaded to pool resources, experiment with a one-column advt. every other week. Price: $1,800. Each publishing house will advertise one book in each insertion. First four books, already solid successes, to be advertised in the March 25 issue: The Bulpington of Blup (Macmillan), The Kennel Murder Case (Scribner), Mutiny on the Bounty (Little, Brown), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Houghton Mifflin). Each title...
...custom, Mr. Newmyer had been reading TIME up to the point of turning out the lights Friday evening. In the Feb. 6 issue was a column advertisement of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, listing a February almanac...
...with a fountain pen and writing case by the Women's National Press Club, said she might use them to write an autobiography. ''There have been so many stories written about me," said she, "that I've been thinking of writing one myself in parallel columns, with the fiction ... in one column and the facts in the other. Stories like the one about my having manned a gun in China during the Boxer uprising. ... I assure you I never manned a gun in China or anywhere else, or used one except on hunting trips...
...H.A.A.'s effusion is apparently an answer to the editorial in this column on February 15 entitled "Breaking Training." The complacent content with worn out platitudes merely substantiates the CRIMSON's view that there is a wide divergence of opinion on this matter between officials and undergraduates. In the last five years the student has come to regard any sort of college athletics as individual exercise, and the training rules as a guide to his own conscience and physical development. This attitude is not subject to debate; it is a fact. There is sufficient evidence to prove moreover, that student...
Then there is a thorough and nicely turned biography of Kari Marx, the well-known mystery man, by Max Nomad. It is of medium length and excellent outside reading for anything. In his column near the back cover will be found Billy Phelps on the subject of Mr. Devote and his biography of Mark Twain. This review, as an intercollegiate inter-office memorandum between English Departments, is highly appreciative, only criyucizing Mr. Devote for depressing the reputations of Mark Twain's contemporaries to elevate the public opinion of his hero...