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...Saturday Review of Literature, as it was called until 1952, began in 1924 as a spin-off of the weekly books supplement to the New York Post. The founding editor, Henry Seidel Canby, was a Yale lecturer in literature and chief judge for 32 years of the Book-of-the-Month Club. A key associate was William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet. In 1940, control passed to Norman Cousins, then 25, whose editorial interests took in the sciences, travel, the music-recording business and, above all, politics. A dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid...
This article is reprinted from the Crimson "Summer Supplement," The aythor worked as it protector duiing the 1981 summer session...
Helicopter pads were installed to supplement the one the ship already has. Some 5,000 sheets of particle board were used to cover paneled walls and carpeting. Truckloads of such rations as chocolate and ice cream, as well as an estimated 100,000 pints of beer, were being loaded aboard. With the refitting going on day and night, the liner could be ready to sail by midweek. About a third of the ship's regular crew of more than 700 was expected to sign up for the hazardous trip south, with pay jumping 150% once the ship sails seven...
...Roget's Thesaurus. Also "the fair sex, girlie, distaff side, Venus, nymph, wench, grisette and bit of fluff." Such archaisms have a kind of antique charm for veteran Rogetophiles, but new times demand new stereotypes. Accordingly, the British publishing firm of Longman advertised in the London Times Educational Supplement for an editor to update its standard 1962 version of Roget's. The result, out last month after more than three years of work, brought some shocked reviews. Cried the London Sunday Times in a headline: ROGET is ZONKED BY A MODERN...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said. "I think it [the committee] could supplement the work of the Foundation and provide an opportunity for us to explain what we've been doing and get some help...