Word: harcourt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOUCH OF INNOCENCE (312 pp.) -Katherine Dunham-Harcourt, Brace...
...LAST YEARS OF NAPOLEON (429 pp.) - Ralph Korngold - Harcourt, Brace...
ACROSS THE SEA OF STARS (584 pp.) -Arthur C. Clarke-Harcourt, Brace...
...BUFFALO SOLDIERS, by John Prebble (256 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95], takes the reader back to the Indian territory (later part of the state of Oklahoma) in 1868, when the bit was tight on both horse and recruit. The pay rate for cavalrymen was "thirteen dollars a month, less twelve and a half cents deduction for the Soldiers' Home," and the odds against a man's getting back from a patrol were a little better than those for eventually getting to the home. The particular buffalo soldiers of the title are an ill-horsed detachment of Negro volunteers...
SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY (280 pp.) -Richard Rovere-Harcourt, Brace...