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Married. Martha Chaffee, 30, widow of Astronaut Roger Chaffee, who died in the Apollo capsule fire 13 months ago; and William Canfield, 41, Texas realtor; both for the second time; in a Lutheran ceremony; in Houston...
Though many a U.S. publisher would have mortgaged his mother to buy Svetlana Allilueva Stalina's memoirs, Manhattan's genteel Harper & Row won the prize without even trying. Svetlana's lawyer, Edward S. Greenbaum, simply phoned his old friend Cass Canfield, Harper's chairman. The motive, though, was something more than friendship. What helps Harper to beat all competition for big books by big names is a secret weapon named Evan Welling Thomas 2nd-the amiably persistent editor who has polished more books by important public figures than anyone else in publishing...
Such lofty phrases as "historical accuracy" and "the right to know" were tossed about freely during the dispute, but they were not really at issue. Neither was "the book's right to live," as Harper Executive Committee Chairman Cass Canfield put it. The central point of the dispute was whether the author had violated an agreement guaranteeing the Kennedys' control over Manchester's final account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Whether or not the Kennedys should have demanded such an agreement was also beside the point. "Manchester made a promise," said Jackie's attorney...
Deadly Dozen. The settlement followed a week of politely barbed name calling-some of it conducted at long distance. In Washington, Senator Edward Kennedy chided Manchester for refusing to cut out the offending passages "despite the pain he knows it will give Mrs. Kennedy." In Manhattan, Canfield said that the row "has been the most trying and distressing one in a 40-year publishing career," added that if either Jackie or Senator Robert F. Kennedy had read the book, "the present situation might have been avoided." In Sun Valley, Idaho, a vacationing Bobby Kennedy paused on the ski slopes long...
...running a magazine since his college days. Ten years ago, when he was offered a job on Harper's by his longtime friend Editor John Fischer, Cowles reluctantly refused in order to learn the ropes in Minneapolis. His wife is the stepdaughter of Harper & Row Chairman Cass Canfield...