OXFORD COMMA | Origin

The Comma Queen, at the Players Club,
November 21, 2017.

November 22, 2017 – How did the comma happen?

And then, how did the Oxford Comma happen?

And how does the Oxford Comma differ from the Harvard Comma?

I listened to a report at lunch today at the Players Club, New York City, by Mary Norris, the "Comma Queen". 

She wrote a book called Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.

(To be continued. Watch this space.)

KERSTI | Rights Trail

Rights are Asserted in the following book by Hilda van Stockum through 2056 or 2076, depending on prevailing copyright law.

1. Kersti and St. Nicholas: COPYRIGHT in name of VIKING PRESS 1940. Originally published by Viking Press. Registration was made October 18, 1940. The book is described as having been published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 11, 1940. Recorded in the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress by the Commissioner of Patents, November 4, 1940.

Historical note: Hilda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam, Holland and saw her country invaded on May 10,  1940 and her home city bombed to the ground by the Nazis a few days later.

The shock of this for her and her mother Olga Boissevain van Stockum must have been agonizing.

Her book describes a little Dutch girls who persuades St. Nicholas to give presents to the naughty children as well as the good ones.

An edition of Kersti and St. Nicholas was published by Boissevain Books LLC.

For other books and articles and artwork to which rights are asserted, see
http://boissevainbooksllc.blogspot.com/2018/05/van-stockum-hilda-van-stockum-assertion.html.

2. VIKING REVERSION OF RIGHTS to Author, 1967 (Seven Books including Kersti)

3. APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE 2006 (Death of author)

4. TRANSFER OF RIGHTS TO BOISSEVAIN BOOKS UPON DEATH OF EXECUTOR

VAN STOCKUM | Hilda van Stockum, Assertion of Rights

Rights are Asserted and Hereby Documented in the following literary works of Hilda van Stockum a/k/a Hilda Marlin aka Mrs. E. R. Marlin. The executor is John Tepper Marlin, Ph.D., Managing Partner of Boissevain Books LLC, to which rights have been assigned.

Hilda van Stockum died in 2006. Rights are asserted for her literary works until 2056 or 2076, depending on the governing copyright law.

The following list is in formation.

Kersti and St. Nicholas. Originally published by Viking Press. Registration was made October 18, 1940. The book is described as having been published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 11, 1940. Recorded in the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress by t he Commissioner of Patents, November 4, 1940.  Historical note: Hilda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam, Holland and saw her home city bombed by the Nazis earlier that year. Her book describes a little Dutch girls who persuades St. Nicholas to give presents to the naughty children as well as the good ones.

WW2 | Remembering V-E Day

Charlie Miner, Jr. at the Vero Beach, Fla. Veterans
Memorial. Photo by JT Marlin.

Amsterdam, Holland, May 3, 2018 –The East Hampton Star just published my "Guest Words" on the death of Charlie Miner and the ending of the war in Europe, 73 years ago this coming week. 

I plan to attend the May 4 Remembrance Day in Overveen, for the ending of the Nazi Occupation of Holland. 

This Occupation took the lives of many of my Dutch-born mother's relatives, who fought against Hitler in the military or in the Resistance. Her brother Willem was piloting a Halifax III for the RAF when he was shot down over Laval, France during the week of D-Day in June 1944.

Army Major and pediatrician Dr Robert Wack wrote a book focusing on Willem. It is called Time Bomber and it is published by Boissevain Books.