Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the 15-story La Prensa (Press) Building, a great white flag was hoisted.From the 16-story Telefonica, Madrid's tallest building, the red-&-gold banner of the old Monarchy, now the Franco flag, invited the conquerors in. The weary Loyalist defenders backed out of their trenches, leaving their arms behind. From scattered balconies draped old Monarchist flags, mantillas with Bourbon emblems...
...press dining room at the San Francisco Fair two ghastly murals of Peace and War, crammed with sexy and hirsute nudes of both sexes, were covered with drapes. Said one Fair official: "It isn't good for the digestion...
Robert E. Whelan (pronounced "Whalen"), 22, research worker in the New York World's Fair press department, was at liberty last week. Reason: incoming telephone calls to him were sometimes given to Grover A. Whalen. Clerk Whelan was asked to change his name, refused, was fired...
...native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other...
...limited editions man." But expensive limited editions, such as his Montaigne and Oxford Bible, account only indirectly for Bruce Rogers' influence on U. S. and British bookmaking. Far more influential were the trade editions he designed during his 17 years with Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books, he himself owns less than 75, few of the expensive...