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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1925 to 1936 Publisher de Graff (cousin to smart Publisher Nelson Doubleday) headed Garden City Publishing Co.'s successful Star Dollar Books, sold 15,000,000 reprints at an annual profit of around $70,000. In 1936 he went to Blue Ribbon Books (nonfiction reprints, 98? to $2.49), last year launched the successful Triangle Books (39?) for them. A top-flight book salesman who knows all the tricks of cutting cost corners, Publisher de Graff figures a profit of 1? a copy, on editions of 50,000. To the original publisher he pays royalties of 1? a copy...
...rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune...
...German diplomats stationed in Central and South America. It was an nounced that Germany and Brazil had made up and were again exchanging Ambassadors. To Berlin will go Brazilian Under Secretary of State Dr. Cyro de Freitas Valle, onetime first secretary of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and a cousin of Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; to Rio de Janeiro will go Dr. Curt Prüfer, onetime German Minister to Ethiopia, chief of the personnel of the German Foreign Office...
Best hammock reading so far this season is The Brandons, a deft tale of pixillated English gentry. Author Thirkell (August Folly, Pomfret Towers) is the at tractive, 49-year-old granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite Painter Burne-Jones, a cousin of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and of Rudyard Kipling, who tried out many of his Just So Stories...
When Eleanor Jewett came to the Tribune in 1918 her qualifications consisted of kinship (first cousin) with Owner Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and a fresh, girlish point of view. To these gifts 20 years in harness have added a dogmatic turn of mind. Miss Jewett soothes the suburbs but sometimes puzzles the well-informed by her propensity toward ticketing all art in terms of "beauty" v. "modernism...