Word: yorke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...distance from the centre of Beverly Hills is its distance from Fifth Avenue. Saks-Fifth Avenue already has a big branch in Chicago and sleek resort shops in such places as Jackson, N. H. and Sun Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians would resent being told what to wear by New Yorkers. Mr. Gimbel intends to handle his Californians gingerly. His personnel will be trained in New York but will...
...about themselves, their books, literature and each other. In Boston for six days nearly 60 authors followed each other on the platform of an improvised exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair...
...Lewis Allen, such part-time writers as Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Astronomer Harlow Shapley, all of whom attended the Fair. Since no fine horizontal line was drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary between Right and Left, listeners at New York's Book Fair could hear New Masses Editor Joseph Freeman as well as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, profane, pugnacious Novelist James Farrell as well as amiable, yea-saying Dr. William Lyon Phelps. So many had listened to them at the end of the first week, despite repeated demonstrations that many...
...literary teas. Publishers accept only one per cent of all manuscripts offered them* (including those of authors under contract), which means they are in the odd predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious to have his writers speak at the Book Fair. He was afraid that other publishers would steal them...
...bookstores, only 500 carry full stocks and buy directly from publishers. If all regular bookbuyers were organized into a club, it would be high-hat in the Deep South, slightly less in the Middle West, not exclusive in California, downright common in Boston and a mass organization in New York, where booksellers, publishers, authors, reviewers and readers are concentrated. The aggressive price-cutting department of R. H. Macy's department store does almost five per cent of the U. S. retail book business, ten per cent of New York's retail business. Boston's historic Old Corner...