Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once looked so long and ardently in the window of Scribner's Manhattan bookstore that a clerk stepped to the door and invited him in. Poor, shy, the boy hesitated, but the kindly clerk inveigled him to an inner room, laid before him the very window display at which he had been gazing-a copy of the works of Chaucer, designed and made at William Morris's famed Kelmscott Press, with typography as virile and rich as the pungent medieval poetry which the letters spelled out. The boy lingered while the clerk drew many another fastidiously wrought volume...
Since he looked into Scribner's window, Thomas Maitland Cleland† has himself enriched many a book, has become a great designer and typographer. Last week's publication is a collection of his best work. For five years it has been in preparation by Manhattan's Pynson Printers, who fashioned it with the deliberate, careful excitement of Cellini shaping a silver vessel...
...Scribner incident was important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...Manhattan, one Angelina del Vescovo, six, sat watching her aunt iron. A gust of wind blew a piece of paper in the window against the iron where it ignited, then into the child's lap. She died of burns...
...Lewis, blonde and sometimes beautiful soprano; in Los Angeles. Married in 1927 by Mayor Walker, dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love...