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...Modern Library's 257 titles, has sold 120,000 copies in ten years; that Of Human Bondage and Candide sell widely enough each year to crowd all but the most popular new books. Most surprising figure revealed by Publisher Cerf: in four years a two-volume set of Gibbon's 150-year-old Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has sold 50,000 copies, is still going strong...
...hurriedly when she learned about the facts of married life. Her seven-year conquest ended when British Ambassador Sackville-West was sacked for putting his nose into a U. S. election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years...
...expedition's cooperative program for increasing knowledge of the gibbon and other Asiatic primates included also a comprehensive field study of gibbon behavior and social relations. Systematic studies were made on 20 different groups of wild gibbons in their undisturbed natural habitat. Their behavior was recorded in several thousand feet of film, while sound recordings were made of most of the typical gibbon calls. Nine live gibbons were brought back to New York
...long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear in his eye, it was not for the squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore. Author Jones...
Charles Harmon Foster, Rochester, New York, B.S., 1935, University of Rochester, Division of the Budget, New York State; Philip Gibbon Hammer, Brightwater, New York, A.B., 1936, University of North Carolina, Senator Robert M. LaFollette; George Mason Ingram, Nashville, Tennessee, Valley Authority; Robert Hey Rawson, North Cohasset, A.B., 1936, Harvard, Treasury Department