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...just gone to press, with 38 million words, 17,600 illustrations, and 41,200 articles from 4,060 contributors. But in spite of all this, EB's editorial board could hardly pause for breath. "You may be just about completed with 1951," says Editor Walter Yust of his job. "But then you've already started on 1952 and have to begin to think about '53 and '54. There's no relief of finishing...
Says 49-year-old Editor Walter Yust: "They used to gather up a staff of editors and get out a new edition. Then the editorial staff would be fired and a sales staff hired. The sales staff would work for as many years as there was still a market. . . . Then the sales staff would be fired and a new editorial staff would be hired. Each new editorial staff would have its own revision methods. . . . The revisions weren't very thorough and there were always a lot of articles badly out of date...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
...afternoon last week, Milles's singing sculpture was unveiled. In bristly English Sculptor Milles explained his statue, wiped his forehead when he had finished. Said he afterward: "A sculptor likes to vork, you know. But dis making speeches iss much harder. Yust as soon as I open my mouth I tink I am saying vot iss wrong. I feel much better now dis iss ofer...
...14th editions, was often rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin Henry Hooper resigns after 40 years with the Britannica, turning over the reins to aggressive Walter Yust, associate editor and ex-newspaperman. Now moving from its Manhattan offices to luxurious new quarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, the staff is working on the encyclopædia's new yearbook of 1,000 articles, scheduled for publication this month...