Word: newtons
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...historian turned publisher, Earle W. Newton likes to be told he can't do something. Two years ago, he sounded out other publishers on his idea for a magazine to rescue U.S. history from classroom dullness, dramatize it in an illustrated quarterly with at least 16 pages of color. The experts warned him that he couldn't possibly start such a magazine with less than $100,000. Anyway, it would have too limited a market to pay off. Newton raised $2,000 from fellow historians, and went ahead...
Last week 34-year-old Publisher Newton not only had his original $2,000 back, with the ninth issue of his American Heritage, he also had 10,000 readers. And he had convinced the professionals. Curtis Publishing Co.'s distributing subsidiary this week will launch a national circulation drive for American Heritage, the first quarterly it has ever agreed to handle. With the big direct-mail campaign, Publisher Newton hopes to win enough new readers to go bimonthly, trim his price from the current 75? a copy...
...SELECTED LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS (279 pp.)-Edited by Newton Arvin -Farrar, Straus & Young...
Even if Adams had done none of these things, one other achievement would stamp him with the stripe of genius: his wonderful letters. To those who automatically pigeonhole Adams as a crotchety Cassandra, Biographer-Critic Newton Arvin's springy sampling of the voluminous correspondence will come as an eye opener. Tart as alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with sensuous responses to life as scandalous in a proper Bostonian as living on capital...
...would plot with the scale on the map 53,600 feet (10.1 miles) due south of the high school in the town of Newton, and 49,600 feet (9.4 miles) northwest of the high school in Olney, 21,000 feet west of Dundas and 2,820 feet south of the Richland and Jasper county line. A farm house (probably Snider's) was located 250 feet to the west and the elevation above sea level of the plotted point would be 503 feet...