Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairnie started to live back in 1927, when, after studying Architectural Landscaping at the Harvard Graduate Schol for some years, he and a companion merged their private libraries and hung out a shingle. At first, profits barely reached the ham of a mythical piggy-bank. Then came the boom. Judge Woolsey, a man of taste, made his famous decision permitting James Joyce's "Ulysses" into the country, and the book-stalls began buzzing. Cambridge shops were hesitant about handling the controversial volume, and while they discussed the matter with the local Legion of Decency, Cairnie loaded his shelves with...
They stood in silent admiration for several minutes, their eyes sweeping the large room, and then gathered for a brief, hardly audible discussion. "And just to think," one Yardling intoned to his companion, not unlike stout Balboa, upon a peak at Darien, "all those fellows are Harvard...
...After long investigation by the British authorities, eight natives were convicted of murdering Mensah, and sentenced to hang (TIME, Dec.11,1944). Mensah, the Crown contended, had been sacrificed to provide blood to daub a ceremonial stool which represented the late Sir Ofori; or to provide Sir Ofori with a companion in the spirit world; or both...
...seeking out the scattered originals, it makes a file of about 22,000 pencil and watercolor copies of 17th, 18th and 19th Century homemade art. Some of the collection has been seen before (notably at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum); other parts will eventually be reproduced in a companion volume to the National Gallery's Masterpieces...
...only man on Collier's who also does the same job for its sister publications, American and Woman's Home Companion, Gurney Williams okays 30 to 50 cartoons a week, pays $40 to $150 apiece. His new boss, Walter Davenport (TIME, July 22), doesn't see them until they are in print. To keep his contributors on the beam Williams edits a galley-proof monthly called Gagazine (circ. 150), full of chitchat, advice and an occasional gag too rich for Collier's blood. His third updating of the famed Collier's Collects Its Wits album...