Word: prints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Laughlin IV is a sort of Lorenzo de' Medici. Scion of a steel mill family, he has centered his interest since graduating from Harvard in 1937 in sponsoring young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...
...half-page advertisement in yesterday's Crimson by the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention seems to us a remarkable example of specious reasoning. Yet we printed this advertisement, and we shall continue to print any advertisement which those who disagree with us wish to place. At this time especially we must give the dissenters every opportunity to be heard, and we should have sufficient confidence in the justice of our cause to risk exposure to criticism...
...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
...over the peoples of Germany and its oppressed nations," declared Professor Hopper, "we must make our war aims as concrete as the Nazi blue-print. Doing this would keep us from making war decisions in crises that would be disastrous to world peace later...
...work, practically all of which can be done in afternoons, carries candidates from the bowels of the print shop to the inner sanctums of Boston's biggest offices and stores...