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Imagination is a word that scarcely occurs in modern criticism, perhaps because it has an amateurish, imprecise sound, and perhaps also because there is not often an occasion to use it. Not many of today's authors are good imaginers. One of the few is Britain's William...
John Tower ran in a special election to fill a vacancy created by Lyndon Johnson's elevation to the vice-presidency. He ran in an off-election year when voting was well below normal. He ran in a campaign which fielded seventy-three candidates of which he was the lone...
The novel fizzled, and Thurber never tried another. But when he came back this time, it was to New York. He became a reporter for the Evening Post, and sent funny prose to a feeble new weekly, The New Yorker, which sent it back. But the magazine accepted the 21st...
Goddard edited the Hearst supplement according to his conviction that readers' tastes were not much above Pithecanthropus level: "The habits of savagery have been welded into the mind and body of man for ten thousand centuries, while it is only sixty centuries that he has had more or less...
By 1951, when Ernest V. Heyn, a troubleshooter from Macfadden Publications, was brought in to reinvigorate the Weekly, it had fallen behind This Week in both circulation (9,430,349 to 9,924,-115) and ad revenue ($12.5 million to $20.6 million). In seven years with Hearst, Heyn erased the...