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First serial rights for North and South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would...
Vice President of the Post is the publisher's wife, Agnes Elizabeth Meyer, one-time staffmember of the New York Sun. Meanwhile Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who wanted the Post but was outbid by Publisher Meyer, announced that on July 4 she will start a new Washington paper, a morning tabloid named the Enquirer. Mesdames Meyer and McLean already have stiff feminine competition in energetic Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald...
...Universities have used every possible resource to attract preeminent scholars, Harvard has turned her mind toward providing the undergraduate with an expensive physical environment for education. The Graduate School has been left to its own resources and has suffered accordingly. In the open market for scholars, Harvard has been outbid time after time by smaller, less wealthy institutions...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
...Philatelist Hind acquired the Rarest Stamp from the Ferrary Collection, confiscated and auctioned by France. He had to outbid Philatelist George V, owner of the most comprehensive British collection. Philatelist Edward of Wales is making a world collection...