Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scheduled for completion in January, 1939, construction on the new building will start early in March, Business Manager Aldrich Durant said yesterday. Ground will be broken for the new Hemenway building, to stand between Gannett House and Walter Hastings Hall on Massachusetts Avenue, about March 15. The building will probably be ready for use next September...
Said Critic Lewis Gannett, emerging from the Fair: "Not all the keen wits of all the 110 publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell...
During the summer the Bureau moved its office from Gannett House to Kendall House to make way for construction of the new Littauer School of Public Administration. Over 150 cases of all kinds were handled by the staff this summer...
...physical units at Holmes Sq., when finished will contain the Graduate School of Public Administration, the gift of Lucius N. Littauer '76, and twelve new squash courts for graduate students. Gannett House, a building from 1830, and used for some of the Law School's offices will stand between the two new buildings...
Included in the 17 men who reported for the first session were three lettermen, Captain Ulysses Lupien, Bob Gannett, and Slim Curtis. Other veteran are expected noon...