Word: collier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan's Crowell-Collier Press is now persuading well-known and imaginative poets, playwrights and novelists to accept the handicap of a 798-word vocabulary and still write primers that six-year-olds can read for themselves with all the delight they have learned to expect from hearing parents read aloud at home...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
Grantland Rice, choosing Peabody for his Collier's Magazine All-American team, sung his praises more colorfully...
...would do credit to any redneck, but the sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even he now concedes...
...Mystery. After the sky-stabbing record flight last week, four Xis pilots -White. Walker, North American's Scott Crossfield and Navy Commander Forrest Petersen-journeyed to Washington, where President Kennedy gave them the Robert J. Collier Trophy, presented annually since 1911 for outstanding achievement in flight. But for White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window...