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...body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable quarters...
Died. Albert Bigelow Paine, 75, biographer crony of Mark Twain, member of the Pulitzer Prize Novel committee since 1929; after a month's illness; in New Smyrna, Fla. At 24 he started a photographic supply business in Fort Scott, Kans., met William Allen White with whom he collaborated on Rhymes by Two Friends, first book of both. He once wrote a biography of the late Banker George F. Baker of which only six copies were published, one for each member of the family...
...last week, the number of U. S. newspapers participating in a new wave of premium circulation-getting passed the hundred mark. Most conspicuous recruit of the week was the "World's Greatest Newspaper," Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's lusty Chicago Tribune, which announced complete sets of Mark Twain at 33½? the volume plus six coupons. The same books were being sold by the Philadelphia Record for 23? the volume plus six coupons...
...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...
...Yorker and Bostonian hid out there to avoid conscription. Paul was an expert and talkative guide and his wife cooked such bounteous dinners of venison, flapjacks and trout that the lodge grew into an immense rambling structure with 216 rooms. It had such guests as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland, Edward H. Harriman. When Paul Smith, an alert, erect oldster of 87 with snowy hair, a Vandyke beard and broad-brimmed hat, died in 1912 he left his three sons the largest estate in Franklin County...