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...have commenced quite in a small way," said Daniel Macmillan when he and his brother Alexander began to publish books in 1843. "If the business should prosper. . . ." It did. And having become one of the world's greatest, richest publishing houses, Macmillan & Co. commissioned Macmillan Author Charles Morgan (The Fountain) to write a history of its first 100 years. Recently published in England (U.S. publication this spring), The House of Macmillan is an entertaining story of the book world's liveliest centenarian...
...million dollars for the cargo. He held out for more, could not get it unloaded. He finally had to take $2,500 for his half-rotten produce. The Giovannis were ruined. So they opened a furniture store with Mme. Giovanni's belongings. As it was beginning to prosper, an Irishman and friend appeared, wanted to see Mme. Giovanni, and laughed loudly when Giovanni told them that the lady was his wife. "Behold the rascal," they cried, "who allows himself to have a wife entirely to himself in San Francisco!", Then one put his hand on his revolver and said...
Selah! and may you live long and prosper...
...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
...have not the slightest doubt that the study of the liberal arts will not only survive this war but prosper in the days of peace. For one thing, the present fighting generation and the younger boys in school will be tired of hearing even the names of science and technology. When the time for the resumption of normal education returns, a sharp reaction towards studies of a different type, a resurgence of deep interest in the liberal arts among students themselves, would seem to be inevitable...