Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Deputy Dillon: "When we ask the Prime Minister what we are, he says, 'Look at the British encyclopedia.' " Said Deputy Opposition Leader Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, the wag: De Valera's dictionary republic was two-headed-one head was an elected President within the state, the other a crowned King outside. It was most peculiar...
Sherman Billingsley, suave, sleepy-eyed host of Manhattan's Stork Club, accepted congratulations from cafe society as the author of a 6,000-word history of nightclubs, to be printed in the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica-which is noticing nightclubs for the first time in 177 years of publication. Pocketing his $120 (the scholar's rate of 2? a word) Author Billingsley lost no time about getting in a professional plug: "Nightclubs are here to stay. Curfews and taxes can't kill them . . . even the Britannica has come to realize...
...fabulous Tumminelli Press in Rome-and very handsome copies they are, well printed by the gravure process. (The Tumminelli Press prints in 29 languages-produces almost all the learned books for the University of Rome. Its owner and manager, Calogero Tumminelli, is himself the author of an encyclopedia in 38 volumes...
Most of the visitors to the Deposit Library are students sent by Widener for special research. The greatest advantage of the library is its extensive amount of material. Librarians remember the case of one Harvard student who wished to compare the first nine editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp. (World Book Encyclopedia), this week put him in as the new boss of G. & D. An old hand, O'Connor had sold culture in the form of the Harvard Classics, had helped to boost the Book of Knowledge to a place on more than a million U.S. bookshelves. His new bosses will...