Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press casualty of the week in London was William Burton Burton-Baldry's pithy two-page financial tipsheet, the Fortnightly Review. Editor Burton-Baldry, senior partner in a London brokerage house, had said in July: "War is not only unlikely, but almost impossible." With markets disrupted by an improbable war, the Fortnightly Review suspended publication "till the 'all clear' signal sounds...
...indulgent after-dinner speaker who keeps a card index of good jokes, stuffs his pockets with them when he goes to a banquet, Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot Macmillan was a congenital committee chairman: of committees investigating lunacy...
Last year horrified reports cropped up that liquid oxygen was being used to fill bombs of dreadful killing power. An article in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review pooh-poohed this bogey, on the ground that liquid oxygen explosives are so sensitive that they cannot safely be transported from place to place, and that they deteriorate rapidly, losing their explosive power in an hour...
Intended as a standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...
Last week Author De Forest's masterpiece was republished. Originally purchased for serialization in Harper's Monthly (Oct. 27, 1866) for $1,250, it was found too strong for the magazine, was brought out as a novel, fell flat despite Howells' enthusiastic review. Twenty-one years later De Forest rewrote it, tried unsuccessfully to persuade Harper to bring it out again. At last, prodded by renewed interest in the Civil War, the changed attitudes toward candor in fiction, the publishers have belatedly acknowledged that De Forest and Howells were right, that their predecessors and public opinion...