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...clock contest the following Harry Cowlesmen will be ready: Jones, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 Sumner Rodman '35, G. Germain Glidden '36, J. Burke Wilkinson '35, Robert L. Bentley, II '36, Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, James J. Fuld '37, Gordon F. Robertson '36, and Richard W. Gilder...
...line-up is Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 at number one; number two, Germain G. Glidden '36; number three, Sumner Rodman '35; number four, J. Burke Wilkinson '35; number five, Robert L. Bentley, II '36; and number six, Guy F. Robertson '36. The doubles combinations will be formed from the above men, Edward R. Sargent '36 and Vincent Palmer...
...organization announced last week by a handful of high-minded Washington scientists, journalists and laymen. A Delaware-chartered corporation called Research Associates Inc., the group includes Frederick Gardner Cottrell of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils; Chester G. Gilbert of Manhattan's Research Corp.; Physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; President William McClellan of Potomac Electric Power Co.; Senior Surgeon Dr. Royd Ray Sayers and Engineer Carl E. Julihn of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; Editor Watson Davis of Science Service; Dr. William Charles White of the National Tuberculosis Association; Heber Blankenhorn...
Journeyman is limited to 1,475 numbered copies. Probable reason for this publishing tactic is fear of Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner, who had the Viking Press haled before Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan more than a year ago on a charge that God's Little Acre was lascivious, lewd, indecent. Judge Greenspan, a liberal, failed to see eye to eye with Mr. Sumner, dismissed the charge. But the Viking Press prefers to be cautious with Journeyman. Less subtle than God's Little Acre, less clogged with esoteric symbolism, it is totally innocent of sexual circumlocutions...
...name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured man, to a youthful fiction...