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...thin times. Published in Paris attics or Greenwich Village cellars, printed on butcher paper, and usually as short-lived as May flies, little magazines were the focus and the forum of the experimental '20s, awaited by literati with breathless interest for the latest chapter of James Joyce, the newest obscurity of Ezra Pound, the next outrageous typographical innovation devised by e.e. cummings...
Albert Guerard has served up an omelette of Francophilia--and as a critical handbook on the limitations of his adopted style, his newest novel has a certain merit...
...spring-legged, outdoor-loving correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau, moved up to Anchorage. From his base in Alaska's busiest city (pop. 35,000), Bachelor Smith will roam the new state, reporting Alaska's passage into the Union and the forward march on the newest U.S. frontier. After two days in Anchorage last week, Reporter Smith flew on to Juneau, looked forward to his new job as "a tremendously exciting experience...
...MacDonald Co., which last year had a hand in triggering the sale of $1 billion worth of merchandise. MacDonald urges firms to award varied prizes, usually merchandise on a point scale, thus give every salesman some incentive to better his work. Incentive firms are also responsible for the newest gimmick in incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor, to take part in sales promotions. Denver's Ringsby Truck Lines brought all of its employees in on a campaign to win new customers, got 3,121 new accounts by offering cash prizes and a trip...
...inspired imitators; two new open-end investment funds and several Wall Street-type firms are now busily stimulating the securities market. From his marble-walled Rio office and his spacious Copacabana Beach home, Dauphinot is looking beyond Brazil for other back roads for his thundering jeep-herd to travel. Newest challenge: the undeveloped capital markets of Argentina...