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...production of his magazine with little change from his peacetime routine. Paper rationing has cut Punch's pages to 28 an issue, has limited its circulation to about 100,000. The staff can no longer hold its weekly meetings with favored contributors around the plain deal table that Thackeray called "the mahogany tree," for the old table is safely hidden in the country and the contributors are scattered over the world's battlefronts...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...
After the Storm. Warming up to his theory, Dr. Petersen quotes A. J. Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high...
...Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...
Other appointments to the staff, as made by Faculty adviser Commander Stanley L. Wilson, U.S.N., ret., were Thackeray P. Spencer '44, as Assistant Editor; Grover C. Hansen '44, as Business Manager; James W. Wolf '44 as Photographic Editor; and Jack H. James '43, as Aviation Editor, a newly-created post...