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DEATH ON THE AISLE-Frances and Richard Lockridge-Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor...
...with 180 votes apiece were Filley and Osborne, Filley of Bernardsville, New Jersey and Massachusetts Hall, Osborne of Boston and Lionel Hall. McCarthy, in 10th place, is from Chicago and Straus Hall. Election Results Freshman Jubilee and Smoker Committees John Marshall Alcorn 291 Thomas Victor Keene, Jr. 213 Joseph Lippincott Eldredge 204 Sinclair Weeks, Jr. 203 Franklin Culbertson French 201 James Edmund McNulty, Jr. 193 Whitson Makamie Overcash, Jr. 184 Oliver Dwight Filley, Jr. 180 Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. 180 Richard Frank McCarthy...
...AROUND CHURCHILL-Rene Kraus-Lippincott...
Four generations and seven individual Lippincotts have kept the Lippincott house in order. Its current president, tall, foxhunting, 54-year-old Joseph Wharton Lippincott, got off to a slow start. But in 1936 he hired as manager of the trade department canny, hard-boiled Frank Henry, former sales manager of Doubleday, Doran. Henry brought Christopher Morley and Kitty Foyle with him, gave Lippincott a more up-to-date approach to the chancy best-seller field...
When Henry went over to Wilfred Funk, Joe Lippincott hired young, capable George Stevens, onetime editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Last January he bought control of young but promising Carrick & Evans, made young but promising Lynn Carrick a director of the company. Always strong in the field of textbooks, medical books, other specialized works, Lippincott found its general trade list bolstered by Carrick & Evans' Frank Hough, John Chamberlain, Princess Paul Sapieha, David Loth...