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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including a pirated Russian translation (Vinni-Pukh i vse-vse-vse), which Macrae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Married. Maurice Herzog, 45, leader of the 1950 conquest of the Himalayas' 26,502-ft. Mount Annapurna, now director of De Gaulle's physical fitness program; and Countess Maríe Pierre de Cossé-Brissac, 39, French noblewoman; he for the first time; she for the second; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 31, 1964 | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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