Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 11, 1936, a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children's book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to fight, and Author Leaf had written it in one afternoon. Ferdinand sold only 13,736 copies the first year. Then it really began to go. By last week it had sold 90,000 copies; Author Leaf and Illustrator Robert Lawson had made about $10,000 in royalties ; Walt Disney had purchased Ferdinand for a Silly Symphony; letters were pouring in accusing Ferdinand of Red, Fascist...
...Eurich & E. C. Wilson -Holt ($2.50). Concise, authoritative, 523-page digest of 1937-8 complex world news-in politics, government, crime, science, religion, art, literature, cinema-by the Test-Makers of TIME. Illustrated...
...count on TIME for as many unprovoked seven-column eulogies on Frank Lloyd Wright and others of his stature as seem necessary to keep readers informed about progress in this phase of our civilization. Congratulations on following and printing the cumulative news that is rarely run as front-page stuff today but tomorrow makes chapter headings in history...
Your National Affairs editors and researchers are indeed a stiff-necked race. Of the Jan. 24 issue you administer "a shocked reproof" to them for mistaking the anniversary the Jackson Day dinners celebrate. And on page 12 of the same issue these same recidivists say "Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners...
Davidson and Rizzo, of Tome: Page, of St. George's; Brown, of Horace ki, of Rindge Tech, are among last Mann; Merrill, of Exeter, and Rockie year's point-winners returning. In addition, breastroker Warner Pach, of Exeter; backstroker Charlie Kilvert and free-styler Bandy Sharp, of St. George's are expected to provide plenty of competition...