Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the Roosevelts' parties by Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
...first time in over a quarter of a century, Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will not give his annual Christmas reading to the Freshmen, because of a press of work...
...Derrydale Press. Offices of The Derrydale Press are a paneled dining room in an old brownstone mansion off Manhattan's Park Avenue. Unforewarned, an old-line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
...only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books, The Derrydale Press, like The Limited Editions Club, is a one-man concern. And among publishers, big, affable, 47-year-old Eugene Virginius Connett III, is a rare bird. Until twelve years ago his business was hats. One of the best dry-fly fishermen in the U. S., he is descended from an old New Jersey sporting family which owned one of the oldest U. S. men's hat factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies...
...literature? They give esthetic pleasure to a few genuine book lovers, a big boost to the technique of book design. But mainly they still thrive on snob appeal. There is probably one chance that de luxe publishers may genuinely further the cause of contemporary letters-if The Derrydale Press should discover a writer who writes half as well as he handles guns and fishing rods...