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Last week, Publisher Updike announced the sale of the Omaha Bee-News to Publisher Hearst. For the Bee-News, his 25th newspaper, Publisher Hearst paid between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, and persuaded Henry Justin Allen to come up from Kansas to edit...
Died. Dr. Maurice Bloomfield, 73, internationally famed among philologists and orientalists, professor of Sanscrit at Johns Hopkins University, first to edit from the original Sanscrit the Grihyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra, and the Sutra of Kaucika; in San Francisco; of heart disease...
...with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden reaction. The Great Man retired to Crete, the island of his birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works of Historian Thucydides (died circa 400 B. C.). He would be deeply, profoundly absorbed for a long time, perhaps until Death came. . . . Promptly suspicious Greeks reasoned that so successful a maker of history as Eleutherios Venizelos might soon itch to do more than edit. They remembered that...
...Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...
Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue. Last week, as he sailed on the S. S. Munargo for Havana, he said that from April on he would edit and print an edition of Vogue in Germany. French and British editions already exist...