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Died. Burton Rascoe. 64, critic, editor, author (Titans of Literature, Before I Forget), compiler (1924-28) of the literary gossip column "A Bookman's Daybook," at one time syndicated to 400 newspapers, who was credited with discovering James Branch Cabell and touting, before they were fully recognized, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg; in Manhattan...
Occupational Hazard. In Green Bay, Wis., policemen going on duty noted a new entry in the daybook: "See the bulletin board for the list of officers to shoot for target practice...
Under zestful Melville Elijah Stone for 25 years, the accent of AP was on straight news. But because of the changing needs of its member newspapers AP gradually added comics, comment, cookery, other "features." One offering, used regularly by over 100 of the 1,400 dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this...
...into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest book cannot be read, it. must be puzzled over. In his famed Ulysses, this Jabberwocky manner cropped out only in occasional shoals and semi-submerged reefs; most of it was plain sailing. But Ulysses, describing the events of one Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down to a walk, perhaps stop altogether, look long...