Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this opinion. With the possible exception of Proust the most-written-about French writer of the last century, Anatole France has not yet been the subject of a definitive English biography. Why biographers have been scared away may be surmised by reading Author Dargan's volume, a 729-pager which took ten years to write and covers only 52 of France's 80 years. Author Dargan, Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago, excuses himself from covering the last 28 years by saying that the facts are too hard to get straight, that France only repeated...
...members, 35 turned up at Chicago's Palmer House last week. The oldest member was not there. Charles William Smith. 83, stayed in Haverhill, Mass, where he still publishes his Tryout, a pretentious 24-pager. Few years ago the Association bought him a $25 font of new type because his own supply, reputedly 100 years old, was so illegible that, what with Mr. Smith's proneness to typographical errors, the members could hardly decipher his writings. The youngest member was not there. Felix Moitoret, 11, stayed in Oakland. Calif, where he publishes The High Filth Herald...