Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, Johnson cited the New Orleans Item, the now-defunct paper for which he worked. In competition with a strong segregationist paper, the Item "took a strong, firm stand on both sides of every issue," Johnson commented...
...important single fact in Africa today," says Rockefeller. "But whether a government is managed from the outside or is a local government is not the determining factor in an enterprise's success. Its stability and its attitude toward private enterprise is the important thing." Rockefeller concedes that his firm is taking a risk, "just as there is a risk anywhere you go." It is a risk the Rockefeller family is prepared to take. The Rockefellers, on their own, are putting $250,000 into several pilot projects in new African nations, have set up offices in Nigeria and Ghana...
Police in seven states were looking for Alfred A. Knopf Jr., only son of leading Publisher (Borzoi Books), Gourmet and Skier Alfred A. Knopf Sr. Young (19) Knopf had left home and a summer job with a printing firm, despondent over being refused by Princeton, and determined (as he said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly...
That was 22 years ago. Since then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie...
Presumably some of the authors with whom the new partners worked before will follow to the new firm. One obstacle to an early mass switch: a clause in standard publishing contracts requiring authors to give their publishers first refusal on their next book. Says Bessie of this clause: "I am not in favor of any devices to tie a writer to his publisher." As an inducement to new authors ("We hope to publish the best we can"), the partners are considering more lucrative terms for writers. One of the trio's projects: a line of high-quality paperbacks...