Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With printing and the late Renaissance, manuscript-making entered its long decline. The last book in the show was a 17th Century Calligraphic Specimen, a prayer bedecked with gay flourishes and signed by one Friar Didace of Paris, self-described as "a poor little Capuchin, very unworthy...
...there is a lean journalist and ex-pressagent who figured there was more than one way to give a Sunday supplement a Sunday punch. The Weekly had been weaned (by the late Morrill Goddard) on a formula of blood and sexy scandals. This Week's Editor William I. (for Ichabod) Nichols prescribed a blander fare: so-so fiction, fashions, features, cartoons. For roughage he added articles on such subjects as home-buying, legislators' pay, sex education...
...Rhodes Scholar and later an assistant dean at Harvard, Bill Nichols first looked for success as a pressagent for the late Sam Insull. When Insull's utilities empire collapsed in 1932, Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
...stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...
...cable asking what he should do, and was told to "Proceed immediately to the Daimler-Benz engine plant in Germany and look at their engines." He brought back five different models. From them and others collected from all over the world, Cat perfected its own diesel. By the late 19303, Cat's diesels had replaced their gasoline engines...