Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Henry Holt told Artist Mitchell that Life's life would be short, advised him to stay out of a field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
Though Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
Frost, Oliver Herford. By the time Edward S. Martin was well enough to resume contributing editorials in 1885, Life had lined up such impressive literary talent as John Kendrick Bangs, James Whitcomb Riley, Brander Matthews...
Kirkland's first dance of the season will be held on the evening of Saturday, November 14, after the Navy game, it was announced yesterday by Martin D. Schwartz '38, chairman of the Entertainment Committee. There will be dacing in the Junior Common Room from 8 until 12 o'clock...
...backs, Wiley E. Mayne '38, Richard H. Wills, Jr. '38, George F. Stubbs, Jr. '38, and Donald W. Davis, Jr. '37; ends, Robert W. Snyder '38, and Ray W. Tripp, Jr. '38; tackles, William G. Hewitt '38, and Stephen A. Reed, Jr. '38; Hendrick K. Arnold '39 and Martin S. Erlanger '38 have been working for guard and center posts respectively. A light team will probably be fielded, but it promises to be a good...