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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Things are happening in Crowell Publishing Co. Last summer the Mentor was overhauled and spruced up (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month the American Magazine bade goodbye to Editor Merle Crowell (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will...
Author Edmund Lester Pearson, 49. celebrated his 20th wedding-anniversary last year. Born in Newburyport, a Harvard graduate, he is the result of 200 years of Massachusetts deacons. In 1927 he left a position with New York's Public Library to write such unusual detective stories as Murder at Smutty Nose. He indulges a live scholarliness, particularly in the investigation and recital of historic murder cases...
CHAPTER THE LAST-Knut Hamsun- Knopf...
Author Hamsun and Publisher Knopf have produced some 15 Hamsun novels in the U. S. Chapter The Last is laid in the Torahus Sanatorium. There is The Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters...
Southward bound for the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta last week were Charles Delos Waggoner who cunningly schemed $500,000 out of six Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16) and George Graham Rice, arch U. S. promoter.* Also last week were broadcast charges which, if proven, may send other schemers to cells...