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...phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double its business by the end of this year to an estimated $22 million in annual sales, and the company as a whole was able last year to show a small profit. "If we could have the magazines break even," he told a press...
...Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
Frail, dark-haired Henri Petiot returned from Rome to Paris last week with a new papal award, and just in time to launch the most prodigious project of his prodigious career-a brand-new, 150-volume encyclopedia of the Roman Catholic faith. Few have heard of Henri Petiot, ex-schoolteacher. But under his pen name of Daniel-Rops, who in France has not? "Le Bestseller," they call him, and they read his books into record-breaking editions, go to his lectures by the hundreds, buy his magazines by the thousands...
Broken into small (average: 128 pages), low-priced (less than $1) segments, the first four volumes of The Encyclopedia of Catholicism in the Twentieth Century came off the presses last week. The rest will appear at the rate of two volumes a month for the next six years, and will contain "everything a Catholic could want to know on any subject in which his religion is involved." Daniel-Rops split up this "everything" into 14 categories-part one deals with faith and knowledge, part six (13 volumes) treats the Bible, part nine (19 volumes) handles "Problems of the World...
...Letter. Daniel-Rops had the idea for his encyclopedia last year, when he noticed how questions about matters of faith were crowding his mail. "I became conscious that the public wanted spiritual culture," he explains. "I had to find a way to answer them...