Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank of their trade (TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities...
...Farrar's Class...
...DONT PUT FARRAR [TIME, Oct. 5] IN ANY CLASS BUT NINETEEN EIGHTEEN GREATEST CLASS THAT EVER CAME TO YALE...
...Yale's Greatest Class apology for misappropriating its Publisher John Farrar. But he took his degree with the Class of 1919 after a year away...
Everyone who knows John Chipman ("Johnny") Farrar-and few literary people there are in the land who have never met him-knows how precocious he is. Remembering his early leaps & bounds, his friends last week were not really as surprised as they might have been when his small, young firm of Farrar & Rinehart, publishers since 1929, bought out potent Cosmopolitan Book Corp., publishers since 1914 and wholly owned by William Randolph Hearst. Long used by Mr. Hearst to make by-profits out of serials published in his magazines, Cosmopolitan was grandly energized last year and the book trade heard that...