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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree is Vol. II of Osbert's autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had dared publish half its secrets, the Sitwell trio would have screamed with rage, summoned their solicitors and sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits in the best...
From 1825 to 1836 Hawthorne had little contact with anybody, even members of his family. He took walks by himself, ate meals by himself, published the few pieces he was able to publish anonymously or under an assumed name. "Not many writers," says Editor Arvin in his introduction, "worked so long amid such a hush or in such a shadow." Hawthorne's literary interests hardly explain the hush and shadow, although the hush and shadow go far to explain his literary interests...
When you have only a few hours to check up on news before you publish it, almost anything can happen. For example...
Capp got the idea a year ago, discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...
...Classroom. For two former college professors, this was gamy stuff. Prentice-Hall's board chairman, Charles W. Gerstenberg, 63, and President Richard P. Ettinger, 52, were both teaching economics at New York University when they founded the company in 1913 to publish Materials of Corporation Finance, a case textbook they had prepared. Aware that Gerstenberg & Ettinger might prove too big a mouthful, they gave the firm the maiden names of their mothers...