Word: backers
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Happily for literature, not all the new U.S. novelists are attempting to renovate the novel. Many make admirable use of the established forms. Appearance of a Man (Random House) by George Backer, 63, an ex-publisher of the New York Post who inherited a real estate fortune and has served as a political adviser to Averell Harriman, elucidates the psychology of power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days...
...plate and selling books during the crusade, with the rest anted up by British churches and businessmen. One Graham supporter offered the crusade $14,000 on the enigmatic condition that Billy would not stay at the London Hilton; assured that Graham had confirmed reservations at the Kensington Palace, the backer doubled his contribution...
...Underwear. Their backers, however, were fighting with a vengeance. Behind Lowell, the favorite at 6-4 and acknowledged the better poet of the two candidates, is Wadham College Warden Sir Maurice Bowra, who himself held the chair from 1946 to 1951. Bowra launched his campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with...
...that manufactured road-building equipment, furniture and motors. His newest investment makes him A.M.C.'s largest single shareholder. He will probably take a seat on the board, but says he presently approves of A.M.C.'s management. Up to now, Evans has been best known as the financial backer and co-designer of a jet hydroplane that was built five years ago with the specific aim of setting the world's powerboat record. It never...
...point during last month's heated Council debate, Edward A. Crane '35, a staunch Curry backer, predicted that "you won't be able to get an auditorium big enough to hold the people that want to come and will come." He then mentioned a figure of 2000 but, Monday night, more than three-quarters of Rindge's 1500 seats were empty...