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Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...
From the Duke University presses last week appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal of Parapsychology, first publication in this field ever sponsored by a reputable university. Well-printed, with a plain, pleasing cover in blue on rag paper, the journal will appear quarterly. Annual subscription: $3. Editors are Dr. Rhine and famed, contentious old Psychologist William McDougall, who raised the eyebrows of orthodox science by dabbling in parapsychology even before the Rhine experiments at Duke got under...
...Vol. 1, No. 1, Psychologist C. R. Carpenter and Mathematician H. R. Phalen of Columbia University say they started their experiments with proper skepticism, using 24 subjects. Two of these made significantly high averages. When they tried 30 subjects on colored cards, instead of Rhine's ESP (ExtraSensory Perception) cards, four of the 30 made impressive scores...
With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...
...endowed itself liberally with characteristics of both the publications it aimed to miss. Its cover and typography, its centre section of long corporation stories on Western Union, Sikorsky Aircraft and Promoter George L. Berry, were strongly reminiscent of FORTUNE. Its general run of financial news stories (leading article of Vol. 1 No. 1 was the automobile strike) sounded much like the Journal...