Word: prints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smitten with admiration for her pluck and for her thriving little print shop, Harvard President Holyoke married the former Mrs. Glover. His admiration for her business acumen and the monopoly she enjoyed in the trade made him throw the University's printing her way. In addition, her shop printed such books as the bay Pslam Book and the Bible in an Indian dialect...
Yale, Princeton and Chicago already had publishing houses to take care of the increasing number of scholarly manuscripts that professors felt should see print. So, on January 13, 1913, the Corporation voted to establish the Harvard University Press as a publishing outlet for the University. Lane was head of the organization that included the Printing Office--still the special province of Adam Wilson...
...Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break. I won't ask his name. If we knew his name we'd have to run it. This...
...most housewives want all the new features, while those who already have them still dream of something more. Said a Michigan housewife: "We have almost all the appliances there are. And we do have a nice kitchen, with white cabinets and blue walls, chintz draperies in a Wedgwood-blue print, and matching wallpaper on the ceiling. But when we build the one we want, we'll have a kitchen about 20 feet long, with all the cooking equipment at one end and a big Lazy Susan table with captain's chairs and a fireplace at the other...
...Joseph Stalin on to the heads of Yugoslav Communists was a slim, sensitive-looking Communist intellectual named Milovan Djilas. He wrote the sharp anti-Soviet newspaper articles which preceded Marshal Tito's dramatic break from the Cominform in 1948. When Djilas' heretical words first broke into print, the Red world gasped. But Marshal Tito stood firmly behind Milovan Djilas. "Old Comrade," said Tito, "we'll stick together...