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...winter's day in Philadelphia 56 years ago, 15-year-old Emanuel Julius invested a dime in a paperback edition of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. It was, as it turned out, the wisest investment of his life. As Julius recalls in The World of Haldeman-Julius, an anthology of his writings published last week (Twayne Publishers of New York; 288 pp.; $4). Wilde's poem did something to him. "Never did I so much as notice that my hands were blue, that my wet nose was numb, and that my ears felt hard...
...time it was not thousands but millions. During his lifetime. Emanuel Julius -or Haldeman-Julius, the hyphenation he assumed after marrying Anna Marcet Haldeman-sold more than 300 million copies of his Little Blue Books, mostly for a nickel apiece, in one of the most successful mail-order businesses ever conceived...
...Someone. Among the guests at that party was a trustee of Ithaca's Cornell University named Victor Emanuel. Emanuel was also board chairman of Avco Corp., which was already deeply interested in the U.S. ICBM program. He fell into conversation about the project's difficulties-particularly that of testing re-entry techniques in earthly laboratories. Said one of the group, pointing to a heavy-shouldered man: "I believe we have someone right here who can help...
...someone was Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz, a Cornell professor of aeronautical engineering. Within minutes, Emanuel and Kantrowitz were deep in conversation. Soon Kantrowitz was heading up a staff at Avco's newly established research laboratory at Everett, Mass...
...families, mostly from the mainland U.S., who make up the Reform congregation are a sizable community compared to Hawaii's eight or ten practicing Jewish families before the war. One of Temple Emanuel's most popular members is the Honolulu Advertiser's nightclub columnist, Eddie Sherman, who recently dramatized Hawaiian Jewry by giving a luau (a Hawaiian outdoor dinner) and calling it a Jewau. The menu included such succulencies as bagel breadfruit, pineapple-flavored matzoth balls, and a renamed local wine, Mogen David...