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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan another such laborious job was put on the market. Its text consisted of a long, symbol-stuffed poem by plane-piloting Poetess Muriel Rukeyser, on the life and modern significance of bearded U. S. Abolitionist John Brown, coupled with verses from the Civil War folk song John Brown's Body. Scattered through the carefully etched text were some 40 meticulous illustrations by Austrian refugee Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper (TIME, Jan. 2, 1939), who had engraved the entire book by hand...
...than one of solid worth. There were 1,646 new novels, 603 new biographies and autobiographies, 284 geography and travel books; 1,434 books of poems, criticism or other belles-lettres. There were 1,570 books on politics, economics or current affairs, 794 juveniles and 3,775 technical and text books. Most notable was the year's flock of topical books, inspired by the war. Led by Rauschning's The Voice of Destruction, they swarmed informatively into the void once filled by pamphleteers...
...addition to old clothes, athletic equipment and text books are being sought by the committee...
...church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...
...Herald Tribune, deserved a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1940. Eleven years before, when Stowe was head of the Herald Tribune's Paris bureau, he himself had won a Pulitzer Prize with the aid of young Reporter Barnes, who had managed to get a beat-the full text of the Young Plan-from a delegate to the Reparations Conference in Paris. But Stowe's suggestion was no mere logrolling...