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Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are...
The bookstores had sold out completely. Consternated publishers, having dusted off and sold the 1,000-odd copies of Donne they usually keep on the top shelf, confessed that Best-Seller Donne was O.P.
(trade patter for out of print). They saw nothing funny about it. "It is," said Ben nett Cerf, publisher of Random House's $3.50 edition of Donne, "a distressing story." Almost as distressed was the Ox ford University Press, which publishes two editions of Donne's poetry, an...
The trouble is that John Donne (com plete) is not printed in the U. S. at all, but in England. Impatiently, the Oxford Press awaited a Donne shipment, praying that, like every other Oxford Press shipment so far, this one might elude Nazi submarines and planes.
Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears...