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When Editor Norman Hume Anthony's new magazine Ballyhoo appeared last month (TIME, July 6) readers wondered whether he would continue his policy of seeking no advertising, of lampooning advertisers with burlesque copy. In the second issue, published this week, the burlesque advertisements are continued. But Editor Anthony reports that, to his astonishment, advertisers have approached Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. with offers to pay Ballyhoo for satirizing their copy. The third number of the magazine, scheduled to appear Sept. 1, may contain four or five pages of such advertisements...
...Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...
About three months ago George T. Delacorte Jr., a publisher without a humorous magazine, sought out Norman Hume Anthony, a humorous editor without a publisher. Publisher Delacorte wanted to add a funny paper to his successful string of 17 Dell magazines.? But Norman Anthony, onetime editor of Judge and Lije, did not want to edit it. What he said that he said was as follows...
...Hume", Professor Prall, Emerson...
...hints and circular letters sent out by a committee which advises but does not demand that certain books be removed from sale. This discreet method would indicate that perhaps the censors are aware of the force of public opinion on these questions. Nevertheless such comparatively innocuous books as "Harriet Hume" by Rebecca West and Michael Ossorgin's "Quiet Street" have been handled rather gingerly by some booksellers within the past year. Such dictatorial acts as the suppression of the numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell to Arms" will probably not be repeated, but it is too much...