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With all his genius for selling literary junk, Max Salop has an almost wistful ambition to become a "legitimate" publisher. In 1933 he bought the highbrow Dial Press from Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh and took a beating for art's sake. He lost money-probably the only time...
The New York World's Fair (attendance in six weeks: 7,419,283) is not only three times as large, but three times as lively, as the Golden Gate Exposition. By day the Exposition is more impressive looking. But with its many individual buildings for industrial firms (a number...
The Harvard cheering section had no complaint to the effect that the Ulenmen would have won in the home waters. But with a wistful sigh they reflected that it would be nice if Princeton and every other college in the league had similar, standardized pools. If that were true, a...
It is practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of...
When he had painted all the blue pictures he wanted to paint, Picasso immersed himself in the life of Paris, went to the circus once a week and to prize fights with two new, tall, stalwart friends: Painter Andre Derain and Poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Working more during the day, in...