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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...methods of contraception, a contraceptive method new to the U. S., contraceptive fallacies, physical and mental effects of contraception, investigations. Day-Nichols, Inc., of Manhattan, publish the book for $7.50. They may sell it only to doctors. They may not send it through the mails, must ship it by express...
...mystery" plates. Then came the most perilous operation: 1,850,000 copies of Cosmopolitan had to be distributed throughout the land to wholesalers and retailers without the nature of its leading article being made public. All leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features...
...Villon, and Braque. The exhibition is the largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary point of view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown...
President and Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell have lent one of the interesting Monet's in the exhibition. It is an excellent example of Monet's scientific handling of color and of the artist's ability to express just what one sees at a glance
...America has lost one of its most brilliant publishers and writers-one who accomplished in a few years what many publishers have tried to do in many years. I am so deeply shocked at the loss of this fine outstanding man and publisher that I am not able to express my feelings...