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...Haven, Conn., antiquarian bookseller named Laurence Witten purchased the map, which had been bound with a 13th century narrative of a Central Asian voyage, from a European dealer in 1957. Later Witten was given a fragment of a medieval encyclopedia that appeared to be written in the same hand as the narrative. Wormholes for all three documents-map, fragment and narrative-matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been...
...CHARLES DICKENS ENCYCLOPEDIA...
...National Lampoon's jejune penetrations of the frontiers of bad taste have earned it a devoted following (800,000) and hilarious profits. But a mock advertisement in Lampoon's 1973 Encyclopedia of Humor brought the magazine's madcap staffers some serious trouble. "If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today," said the realistic-looking ad copy under a photo of a Beetle floating hubcap-deep in water. The text explained that Volkswagen's watertight construction-a selling point in genuine VW ads-would have prevented the 1969 drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne...
Lewis emphatically agrees. While some 40,000 volumes of the Yale edition have been sold (at $20 each), Lewis does not expect many scholars to read the complete set. "But," he adds, "no serious student of this period can afford to overlook this work. It has become the encyclopedia of the 18th century." It has also become, for Lewis, the culmination of a lifetime devoted to collecting...
Lots of folks think student life is idyllic. The reason the neighbors complain, the landlord reassures the students in Moonchildren, is that they would give their last hair to live like students themselves. In Moonchildren's first act there's an encyclopedia salesman, a young person like the students or the secretary who envied my freedom. "You study math?" he asked the graduate student. "I'd have liked to study math...My father made me study law." When he realizes the students are of both sexes, the encyclopedia salesman's envy soars still higher, but I don't think Weller...