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...into a field where I wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
...into a field where I wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
Sorge's major achievements were nothing short of remarkable. He had long been a top Red Army agent when he turned up in Tokyo as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung. He got so cozy with staffers in the German embassy that he was even permitted to edit the office newsletter. Before the Japanese got on to him, Sorge had succeeded in warning Moscow in advance of many of Hitler's plans, told his superiors of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and gave them 38 days' advance notice of Hitler's invasion of Russia...
These are but a few of the 4,000 or more queries fielded last week by a highly professional team at Time Inc. known variously about the shop as the morgue, edit ref and, correctly but rarely, the Bureau of Editorial Reference. Over the years, as the demands of the editors and the volume of information have grown, so has the bureau, which also serves TIME'S sister publications-LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED-as well as other divisions of the company...
This morning is your very last chance to knife, to eulogize, to blast, to reflect--to put in your two cents or plug nickels about Harvard edit cation in the Fall of 1965. Polls will be collected today...