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...Limited Editions Club is a one-man concern. George Macy writes its prospectuses, selects its books, designs such important ones as the five-volume King James Bible, drives a shrewd bargain with printers and illustrators, runs his swanky Madison Avenue offices like an efficiency expert. Within walking distance is his Park Avenue home, where he lives with the pretty mother of his Linda, 7, his Jonathan, 1. He races to his office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production...
...Typical repast: "fish chowder" (boiled onions, rice, a can of sardines). William Schmidt, 68, is knotty with muscle and so bent from years and decades of working in a tunnel that he can hardly straighten up. But last week mining men were saying that he had accomplished the greatest one-man mining achievement in the history of engineering...
...crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation and cross-referencing, is beautifully illustrated...
...celebrated the soth anniversary of his U. S. debut by playing a special gold-lacquered piano in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, Nov. 21). Forgotten at the time by most Manhattan concertgoers was the fact that Pianist Rosenthal's U. S. debut in 1888 was not a one-man show. Billed as assisting artist on that program was another U. S. debutant: a self-effacing, dark-eyed, 13-year-old Viennese violinist named Fritz Kreisler. In their excitement over Pianist Rosenthal's galloping fingers, the Manhattan critics nearly forgot to mention Infant Prodigy Kreisler...
...with the painful slowness of a virtuoso who hates virtuosity, living on the Federal Art Project's $22.77 a week, he has finished in five years 16 paintings which he is willing to show. Last week they were shown at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery in his first one-man exhibition...