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Last week, 750 miles west of its former Manhattan office, Scribner's Commentator, bellwether of isolationist theoreticians, was busy getting settled in its headquarters in Lake Geneva, Wis.(pop. 3,258). Founded four years ago by Charles Shipman Payson, rich redheaded brother-in-law of Sportsman Jack Whitney. Scribner's Commentator has had as contributors Charles Lindbergh, Senators Wheeler and Nye, General Hugh Johnson, the Chicago Tribune's Publisher R. R. McCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flight from Manhattan | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...STREETS OF LONDON - Thomas Burke-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 700-Year Newsreel | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...religious book-of-the-year was published last week, and it puts sin right back in the spotlight. Its author: Union Seminary's Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, high priest of Protestantism's young intellectuals. Its title: The Nature and Destiny of Man: Volume I (Scribner; $2.75). Its significance: that America's most influential theologian is reversing the optimistic and rationalistic trend of Christian liberalism to lead his legions back to an almost medieval emphasis on the basic sinfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin Rediscovered | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...title," Fitzgerald called his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon-A Western, expected it to run a little longer than The Great Gatsby (218 pages). He had begun writing it some five months before his death. Though secretive about his progress, he mentioned the novel in letters to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins and to Edmund Wilson, Fitzgerald's fellow Princetonian and "intellectual conscience." Perkins had even seen the first chapter, liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fitzgerald Unfinished | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...literary reviews which flourished like tropical flowers in a rainy summer after World War I, few have survived to greet the grim winter of World War II. The Dial went down in 1929; American Mercury became a minor political forum. Scribner's died and was reborn in another form. Two survivors, Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, survive like old-fashioned perennials. But last week in Manhattan a new one was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Refugee Review | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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