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Contempo, a literary magazine of small circulation, was published in Chapel Hill, N. C. by Milton A. Abernethy and Anthony J. Buttitta. Last year they quarrelled. Buttitta moved to Durham, N. C. Editor Abernethy, continuing to publish at Chapel Hill, was distressed last January to read an announcement by his ex-partner that the latter had removed Contempo to Durham, would publish it from there. Each side hired lawyers, Abernethy decrying Buttitta as a humbug (TIME, Jan. 16). No humbug, Mr. Buttitta last week sent his own Contempo out from Durham, close on the heels of the latest issue of Abernethy's Contempo. Both are printed on similar rough stock with a nearly identical masthead, Buttitta's marked: "Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." Abernethy's is designated Vol. Ill, No. 7; Buttitta's, Vol. IV, No. 1. Buttitta's contained work by Floyd Dell and Henry Pratt Fairchild.
Abernethy's lawyer threatened to act on postal laws forbidding two magazines to appear under the same name.
Advt. of the Week
An unusual proofroom blunder let a book advertisement in Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Republican New York Evening Post run upside down. Readers who turned the page around saw that the book thus advertised was Charles Austin Beard & Mary Ritter Beard's The Rise of American Civilization.
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