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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Chicago saw was a full-size, 72-page first edition with format and typography resembling a cross between the New York Herald Tribune and Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean. It had a good sports section, competent Washington dispatches, but was weak on writing, painfully weak on comics (mostly new). Advertising-wise its first issue was fat to bursting (over 300 columns), with a listing of 150 advertisers who were turned away (though much of it doubtless came under the same heading as the twelve-page section of congratulatory letters...
...compiled by Richard Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients...
This year's calendar is similar in format to the 1941 publication which marked the initial appearance of "Harvard In Portrait". Featuring the Eliot House Tower on the cover and a Harvard air view on the frontispiece, the 1942 calendar has a total of 14 pictures...
...marked Harper's peak. In 1925, with circulation down to 75,000, it changed format, dropped illustrations, printed less fiction, more articles dealing with ideas, trends, U.S. mores. Now its circulation is 106,800 and Editor Allen sees no reason "why a magazine with the general purposes and standards of Harper's shouldn't have a circulation of 15,000 or 300,000, depending on how interesting...
With a view of the Memorial Church Tower on its crimson cover, the Alumni Bulletin has made its first issue of the year in considerably revised format. This year's changes are by no means as radical as those made last year. At that time the Bulletin was completely revised and modernized, but was based on a two column page. The major innovation this year in the substitution of three for two columns which thereby increases the nize of the page considerably...