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...Boston Distribution Conference last week (see p. 86), the most laughs were provided by young Edward S. Marcus, Secretary-Treasurer of Dallas' swank specialty shop, Neiman-Marcus. Mr. Marcus, in pursuit of new fashion ideas, took a three months' trip to South America. He came back well sold on the future of hemisphere trade, but with a new understanding of what it takes to do business with Latin America. Some items...
...Chile, Mr. Marcus admired and bought a hand-worked copper cigaret case. He couldn't buy any more because its maker, a silversmith, really felt it beneath him to work in copper. There Mr. Marcus planted a seed for the future: to glamorize copper work, he offered a prize to the schoolboy who. could make the best handmade copper gadget...
...Marcus Lee Hansen's The Atlantic Migration (Harvard; $3.50) is a more accomplished performance. Simply told in 306 optically pleasant pages, distilled from long research and with its tremendous documentation decently concealed at the back, it is model history...
...Marcus James '43 presents a convincing picture of bad conditions in British Colonies, in "A British Colonial Views the War," but points out that they are supporting England whole-heartedly in the war, "not to retain Democracy, but rather to obtain...
Awarded. The 1941 Pulitzer Prizes in letters and journalism, to: Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, for his wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year...