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MODERN AMERICAN USAGE by Wilson Follett. 436 pages. Hill & Wang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Language by Committee | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports that it has sold 100,000 such books-an indication that they are moving well throughout the field. Other successful textbooks have been put out by Scott Foresman, Macmillan, Follett, Chandler, and Holt, Rinehart & Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Textbooks: Big Drive for Balance | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Everybody said what a delightful little girl Barbara Follett was. She had big dark eyes and long dark curls and a mind full of charming childish surprises. Her parents were teachers (her father later became moderately well known as Critic Wilson Follett) who, at the time of Barbara's birth (1914), decided that their little girl was much too sensitive and gifted to run with the herd of ordinary children that attended public school. So they kept her at home, where they could be sure she received only the finest instruction: their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy in a Hothouse | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Princeton University has admitted a as a candidate for a degree for first time in its 215-year history. In Saturday. Robert F. , president of the University, said . Sabra Follett Meservey would the Graduate College next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton University First Woman | 4/24/1961 | See Source »

...Gishes both gave creditable performances--Lillian as Miss Madrigal and Dorothy as Mrs. St. Maugham--although they seemed somehow reluctant to lose themselves in their parts and to forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron Follett, as the excitable, Gigi-like Laurel, had a part which could easily have been overplayed, but she handled it very well. O. Z. Whitehead was stiff at first but afterwards quite engaging as the butler. Only Frances Ingalls, as Laurel's young mother, was much too unsure of herself...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Chalk Garden | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

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