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...Luck. His name was Pedersen. He had signed his first poems "Hamsund," after his family farm, but a careless printer dropped the final 'd' off an early byline and he stuck to the misprinted name for luck. Meatpacker Armour's $25 was one of Knut Hamsun's rare breaks in the U.S.; in 1888, he returned to Norway to write of his disenchantment with the U.S. of booming stockyards and cornlands. He had found no cultural life in the U.S., only "prudishness, self-complacent ignorance," and "patriotism engendered by tin fifes...
...girls ... Do you long for the smell of printer's ink? Are you longing to escape your sheltered life at Radcliffe for the glittering, sophisticated world of newspaperdom...
...organized a "Fighters for MacArthur" group. In California, they go by the name "Americans for MacArthur." New Hampshire has a "MacArthur for President" committee. Texas has launched a "Demand MacArthur" movement which hopes to spread well beyond the Lone Star border. As one of its quietly enthusiastic sponsors, Dallas Printer William S. Henson, explained last week: "We've got a lot of little grass fires going all over the country, and there will be more of them by convention time. We aren't fighting anybody. We are just waiting." What they are waiting for: a situation in which...
Intolerance & Anagrams. The ushering began in 1745, when a Paris printer named André François Le Breton hired the impecunious Diderot to work on a modest two-volume encyclopedia. Diderot soon expanded the project, decided to "assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth . . ." Before he was through, he had persuaded some of the best brains in Europe to help...
...from subscribers, bringing ecstatic testimonials. Wrote "L.M.W." from Pennsylvania: "Its contents seem like nuggets of gold." "The Reader's Digest," announced Editor Lila Bell Acheson in the second issue, "is successful beyond all anticipations." The fifth month brought a crisis; the Digest couldn't pay the printer, and Wallace was plunged in gloom. At first Lila was crushed by these moods, which would "just descend on him like a black cloud. It was all new to me-it just isn't in my nature to worry. Then I realized he liked to worry, so I started kidding...