Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average daily sales of 3,700, Gone With The Wind had sold its first million copies inside a year, 1,400,000 in its first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah...
Thereafter three improved lists were worked up by the New York Times, the Herald Tribune and Publishers' Weekly. Checking the leading booksellers in each of ten cities every week, the Times merely lists favorites of the moment in each part of the country. The Herald Tribune prints a weekly chart, compiled from reports of some 70 bookstores. Appearance and position of a book on this chart is determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin...
...School: Kirkpatrick scholarships to George A. McDonough, 1L, of Dorchester, and Solomon Schildhause, 1L, of New York...
...YORK, March 6--Final decision in the case of seven Fordham athletes recently declared ineligible for the remainder of the year in Varsity competition will be rendered by University authorities tomorrow...
...Baltimore, assistant in Physics and Communication Engineering. For the first half of 1938-39, Lawrence C. S. Sickman '30, of Peiping, China, instructor in Fine Arts. For one year from next September 1 Milton C. Kloetzel, of Detroit, Michigan '37, instructor in Chemistry, and Evan C. Noonan, of New York City, instructor in Chemistry