... C. Barnhart

[Barnhart]

Bapopik at AOL.COM,Net writes:
>CLARENCE BARNHART

>   A nice article is in THIS WEEK, NYHT, 8 August 1954, pg. 9:

>_MAN OF A MILLION WORDS_
>_How do words get into the dictionary?  Take it from_
>_Clarence Barnhart, it can be a 70-hour-a-week process_
>(...)
>   One Barnhart motto is, "Make up your mind and write it down."  "You
>have to decide," he says, "when it's publishable.  You can't wait for
>perfection.  It isn't worth $50,000 more to get that comma in
>correctly."
>   However, (managing editor William--ed.) Halsey claims that
>"Clarence's dying words will be, 'It isn't ready.'"

I remember my father saying that some very fine dictionary projects had
never been published for want of too much research and too little
writing.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com