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More than an Invalid. The decision to go national underscores Playbill's ambition to become something more than just a theater program with ads. For most of its 78 years, that was all it was. Its creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
...government professor at the State University of New York, spends several hours in the stacks each day, doing research for a book he is writing on Campus Conservatism. He has finished 10 chapters so far; the completed manuscript -- to be about half again as long -- will go to the printer in early September for publication sometime during the winter. A tentative title is "Conservatism in Youth: A Portrait...
...would be impossible to write a Russian novel in the U.S., he wrote, because here life took on a more "smiling aspect." Biographer Edwin H. Cady presents evidence that the peculiar blindness of this reticent realist may have had a base in neurosis. The son of an Ohio printer, Howells was a weedy adolescent plagued by acute vertigo, hypochondria and a tendency to uncontrollable homesickness. His literary ability won him a job as city editor of a Cincinnati newspaper, but his first view of police court sent him home with the shudders. His neuroticism, although he learned to control...
...only innocent guy in the whole deal. All he wanted was publicity." All Too Fantastic. Most of Sammy's erstwhile business associates found it hard to be so forgiving. While Pro-Regent Carson (who turned out to be a 19-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have...
Died. Burton Egbert Stevenson, 89, sprightly anthologist and founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims -a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages-marked by artful delving into literary sources from Greek preachments ("Abstain from beans"-Pythagoras) to English epigrams ("Tell it to the Marines"-Charles II to Mr. Samuel Pepys); after a long illness; in Chillicothe, Ohio...