Word: shoptalking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When U. S. college presidents gathered last week in Pasadena, Calif, for their annual shoptalk, they had something new to talk about. Besides its old worries-Money Troubles, Social Security, Academic Freedom, What is a Liberal Education?-the Association of American Colleges had a new one: Conscription...
...masterfully made volumes on bookmaking and bibliography, has built the best reference collection on the subject in the U. S. Its dim library of some 27,000 books-about-books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times...