Word: congdon
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Pembroke will admit 11.3 per cent blacks and Brown 5.6 per cent to the class of '73. By the class of '77, 11.1 per cent of Brown's entering class and 12.5 per cent of Pembroke's will be black The black strikers, who spent yesterday in the Congdon Street Baptist Church, had no immediate comment...
...CONGDON Harold Matson Co. Inc. Manhattan
...text went to United Artists-despite the ban on movie sales. Without the Kennedys' O.K., rights for British publication were sold to London Publisher Michael Joseph for an unspecified sum and to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. Manchester's agent, Donald Congdon, sent 25 copies of the manuscript to six magazines-LIFE, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Good Housekeeping-for bids...
When the bids were opened July 29, all but LIFE and Look were quickly eliminated. Congdon admitted that at one point "LIFE did offer the most dough," but LIFE was unwilling to meet Congdon's insistence that Manchester should have complete control over the serialization-down to headlines and captions. LIFE ultimately went to $600,000; Look got it for $665,000, and gave Manchester considerable control. LIFE offered him only what it has given to authors from Winston Churchill to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: the right to recommend changes and approve the final excerpts. As for the money, Manchester...
...fatigue took hold. Boy Scouts loved it, though their adult leaders seldom kept up. College fraternities took to it with the same gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor...