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Designer of the Selectric typewriter, Eliot Noyes was a visionary at IBM and is this spring’s cover story.
“Noyes stated his opposition to decorative gimmicks, but, as the documentary tells it, he had tricks up his sleeve and a good deal of luck.” —Menachem Wecker
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More than a textbook, The Columbian Orator by Caleb Bingham shaped two of the greatest speakers of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
“Flipping through the selections is like walking a grand boulevard of rhetorical tradition, not quite sure who’s waiting for you on the next block.” —Danny Heitman
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An editor at Knopf, Judith Jones worked with Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck on Mastering the Art of French Cooking, among other fine books.
“Her eye for talent and good writing and how to nurture it . . . never wavered and would only grow keener.” —Steve Moyer
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