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EDITOR TO AUTHOR: THE LETTERS OF MAXWELL E. PERKINS (31 5 pp.) -Edited by John Hall Wheelock-Scribner...
STRIKE THROUGH THE MASK! (70 pp.) -Peter Viereck-Scribner...
Cosmopolitan magazine had a new solution to the problem of what to do about those short, blunt words Ernest Hemingway uses in his latest novel, Across the River and into the Trees, which the magazine is serializing. When Scribner published For Whom the Bell Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word-e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin...
...quarry was first sighted at 3:15 p.m., near Mrs. Charles Scribner Jr.'s estate, "Dew Hollow," in northern Somerset County. When the fox saw the hounds coming, he lit out for the south. On the way, he led hounds and huntsmen across two state highways and through a couple of startled villages. Said Mrs. Scribner, the club's master-of-hounds: "It was nothing short of a miracle that none of the hounds was killed in the traffic." The fox picked up a long lead in the streets of North Branch (pop. 250), then trotted back into...
...cold and dark of 6 p.m., with only four resolute hunters left in the field, Mrs. Scribner called for a van to carry the exhausted mounts home. Most of the wheezing pack was encountered an hour and a half later, some 22 miles from the starting point. The last dog found his own way home two days later and was sent to his kennel for a good rest...