Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three sections have been set up in the committee. A scientific committee will publish a pamphlet on the cost of the last war to science, and an economic group will investigate the effects of the last war on labor and will write a leaflet on its findings. A music committee, under the direction of Lawrence B. Grose '41, will attempt to popularize an anti-war ballad being composed by Dexter P. Nichols '41. Plans are being made to have a "No Wilson Promises" group in the Glee Club introduce the song...
...John Chapman bought a publishing house, and later bought the great, liberal Westminster Review. Chapman, says Author Haight, was vain, humble, shrewd, generous, a quack and a reformer. "Though he refused to publish a novel containing an objectionable love scene, he maintained in the heart of mid-Victorian London a household no novelist would then have dared to describe...
Soon George Eliot began to publish her novels serially-not in the Westminster Review. Spurred on by enlightened self-interest, Chapman soon snooped so successfully that he discovered who George Eliot was. Wrote Lewes to Chapman: ". . . [Mrs. Lewes] authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of Adam Bede." Chapman's only reply seems to have been to ask if he might republish some of George Eliot's old articles in the Westminster Review. Lewes said No, wrote in his diary: "Squashed that idea...
...former Advocate editor and a recent President of the new-defunct Harvard Monthly will publish tomorrow the first issue of Vice Versa, a bi-monthly poetry magazine containing the work of new writers as well as poems by major contemporary figures...
...Lincoln Schuster is the more breathless half of Publishers Simon & Schuster. For 25 years he has worked on an anthology of notable letters. But he has been too busy publishing other people's best-sellers to complete one of his own. He was also hampered by an embarrassment of riches. As friends sent him new finds, the Schuster letter collection swelled, at last filled "many mammoth volumes." Whenever he decided to publish, a new "irresistible" letter would turn up. This week he finally got it off the press: A Treasury of the World's Great Letters...