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Later, Kathleen Burke married another friend of France, Los Angeles Artist (portraits and murals) Girard van Barkaloo Hale, who served for two years with an American Field Service unit attached to the 22nd French Infantry; in recognition of his devoted service, France awarded him the Croix de Guerre with two citations...
Last August, the Hales sailed for France again, laden with gifts for the 150 children of Maillé. Girard Hale also planned another surprise for the kids, a bus trip to Paris. Said he: "It may be one of the few times they'll ever visit Paris. The people of Maillé hardly ever even go to Tours, which is only 15 miles away...
Word has come from E. Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas, publisher of the famed Little Blue Books, that TIME'S Press story on him in the Aug. 8 issue produced a fine response. "I must have heard from two thousand people by now," he said. "People wrote ordering books, sending in manuscripts, asking for racks full of books to sell. I heard from French Morocco, Brazil, and everyplace...
Hard pressed by the book slump, Haldeman-Julius had decided to junk his familiar, plain format in favor of a new look. From his printing house in Girard, Kans. (pop. 2,500), he will continue to fill mail orders for everything from Practical Masonry (No. 1,232) to Margaret Sanger's What Every Girl Should Know (No. 14). But from now on, the Blue Books will be dressed up in lively, illustrated jackets in every color except blue...
...Julius when he was 15, after he had breathlessly devoured a cheap copy of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol. Maybe, he thought, if books were cheap enough, more people would read them. Fifteen years later, when he became the publisher of a weekly Socialist newspaper in Girard, Haldeman-Julius decided to try the idea. He pulled out the battered old Ballad and a companion copy of the Rubáiyát, handed them to his perplexed linotype operator to set in type...