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...necessity, by proclivity, and by delight," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "we all quote." In reporting the course of contempo rary history, TIME quotes by necessity, because the things that people say reveal much about what is going on in the world. And we also quote by delight. Some examples in this week's TIME...
...trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum (see cut) and View of the Forum...
...weeks ago appeared in the Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
...years Anthony J. Buttitta of Bizerta, Tunis, has been striving for a literary renaissance at Chapel Hill, N. C., where every three weeks he publishes Contempo. Contempo's editor considers his magazine ''an asylum for aggrieved authors," a paper dedicated to ''the reception of new ideas."' No contributions are paid for, but manuscripts have found their way to Editor Buttitta's offices from many a famed U. S. writer, including William Faulkner. Malcolm Cowley, Countee Cullen, Michael Gold, Sinclair Lewis, Lynn Riggs, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens...
...long ago Contempo moved from Chapel Hill to Durham, and a most embarrassing thing happened. Editor Buttitta lost his subscription list. Last week he was requesting his subscribers to send their names & addresses to him, please. Address Snow Building...