Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...
When United Feature Syndicate bought North and South American serial rights to Charles Dickens' The Life of Our Lord (TIME, March 12), many a newsman thought it had purchased a dead horse. But the pious story which Dickens wrote for his children proved to be an eminent success. It increased the circulation of newspapers using it by an aggregate 1,000,000. an average of 10% per paper. Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature hailed it as "the greatest circulation builder of all time," better even than the War photographs lately in vogue (TIME...
...defense was $2500 and the sale gave the Record the right to publish any tidbit it wished over the signature of Norma, until she should be released from the custody of the state by acquittal. In the case of conviction it is not too fantastic to suppose that the serial could go on indefinitely...
...world rights to the manuscript, the London Daily Mail paid $210.000 to the widow and family of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, last of the ten Dickenses to die. For an unnamed price, United Feature bought North & South American serial rights. Second publishing rights were to be sold to smaller papers up to May 15, when Simon & Schuster will issue The Life of Our Lord in book form...
...fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when he writes about James Joyce's Work in Progress as: "intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation . . . oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse . . . clangorous calembour . . . kaleidoscopic recamera . . . logophilous Birth-trauma . . chronic serial extension