Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compulsory attendance at athletics will end for the winter term on Friday, February 9, Clarence B. Van Wyck, accrobary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday. With the date for the opening of the final examination period set by the College for Wednesday, February 14, the Athletic Department has decided to require attendance up to the final week...
...Button & Co. last June set aside enough paper for 40,000 copies of Van Wyck Brooks's The World of Washington Irving, figuring that it would see them through this year. But the Book-of-the-Month Club took the book, and sales rocketed. Button ran out of paper. (Most publishers of best-sellers exhausted their paper stocks in August or September.) To keep the book in print, and give Author Brooks the benefit of Christmas sales. Button turned over their publishing rights to the 100-year-old Philadelphia publishing house of Blakiston...
...World of Washington Irving, by Van Wyck Brooks, tells of a period in American history comparable to the present, when Parson Weems hawked books from his spring wagon and the people were avid for learning. Part of its value is that, in a time when there are not enough new books of quality to satisfy the demand, it directs readers to many excellent, forgotten U.S. writers...
...Little Colonel. Stephen Vincent Benét once called Van Wyck Brooks the little colonel of literature. Now 58, a ruddy-faced, grey-mustached man of middle height, he is as straight as an old soldier, somewhat resembles one in his severely simple working life and the spare common sense of his words. With the earnings of The Flowering of New England he built a square white brick house on the top of an isolated hill four miles from Westport, Conn. It has high ceilings, soft-toned walls, many windows, large rooms, a view of the Sound, books, comfortable chairs...
There Van Wyck Brooks awakens early each morning, reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal...