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...Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...quite a way from Arkansas, and particularly from long-embattled Little Rock, to the scholarly Chicago offices of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But Pulitzer Prizewinner Harry Scott Ashmore, 44, is about to make the trip...
...developed a micromicrocamera that can put a page of the Bible on a bit of photographic film much smaller than a pinhead. On this scale all the pages of a Bible would barely cover Lincoln's head on a if piece; the 27,357 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica could be reproduced on the back of a matchbook...
...invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale,"* and the more generous assertion that "he created an American literature out of American materials...
Died. Walter Yust, 65, tall, stooped, onetime newsman (Philadelphia Evening Ledger and Press) and literary editor (Philadelphia Public Ledger), longtime (from 1938 to last month) editor in chief of all Encyclopaedia Britannica publications; of a heart attack; in Evanston...