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...SEARCH (342 pp.)-C. P. Snow-Scribner...
...resolve the quandary, Under Secretary of the Treasury Fred C. Scribner Jr. suggested 1) a tax on total life insurance income, 2) a stiffer tax on investment income only, 3) a compromise taxing part of investment income and part of underwriting income. The subcommittee is readying a bill, based on the compromise proposal, which will raise the life insurance companies' tax bill to between $400 and $500 million a year. At week's end it was apparent that most companies will go along with the new proposal...
...turned out, Wolfe never wrote great plays; he never wrote plays at all. Six years after he left Cambridge, Scribner's published Look Homeward, Angel, the first of four massive autobiographical novels. The time between had been filled with experimentation and revision. Wolfe had decided that dramatic form did not ideally suit his particular talents, and so discarded all the work he had done in Cambridge...
...Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
...Until his death in 1947, Perkins, as editor of Charles Scribner's Sons, was literary nurse to such authors as Thomas Wolfe, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. In Wolfe's case he was also surgeon, cut and helped revise the huge, sprawling manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel...