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Faced with the competition of the big-city press and other news media, suburban dailies tend to be lackluster compendia of wire-service copy, plumped out with movie schedules and strictly local news. Such papers may rank low on journalism's merit scale, but they often can be immensely profitable businesses. One lucrative example is the Macy chain in New York State's Westchester and Rockland Counties, where the nine Macy papers have been making large profits for 40 years. Last week this highly successful suburban group was sold to an even more profitable smalltown chain...
...very long ago, Sir James Frazer sat in his leather armchair, distilling an impressive compendia of primitive customs from the reports of adventurous travelers; at the same time his countrymen were rallying to the jingoist battle cries of Kipling. Nor was the primacy of white civilization absent from the American idiom: with the then recent defeat of the last of the Indians, the slogan "Better dead than Red" still meant something. Soon after the turn of the century, however, modern cultural anthropology was born, when Franz Boas left his study and took to the hills in search of the truth...
...would be forced to pass up the publication of the third edition of his mammoth work. But he and Editor Glenn D. Angle, onetime chief engine designer for the Air Corps, managed to talk their way past a War Department order which would have stopped all scientific compendia. Finally, after approving the Aerosphere's text (and deleting much recent data which manufacturers had offered), the War Department ordered 300 copies. Publisher Thorp intends to present copies to the Chinese, British and Russian Embassies for forwarding to Chiang Kaishek, Churchill and Stalin. Other foreigners who order copies must be approved...
...principles of the new style, and eighty photographs of contemporary architecture which serve the purpose of references from the text and of showing good examples of the International Style, "the only genuine architectural style since the Eighteenth century." Most books on modern architecture so far have been great compendia of a galaxy of new architectural creations all over the world, but this well printed, attractive volume serves the confused average reader by a critical selection and by its demonstration of constructive principles. This is no place for a discussion of the merits or defects of the new style...