Word: harper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ringmaster of Washington's social capers, her marriage to- and divorce from- the heir to a construction fortune, her affairs and flirtations with the mighty, her fall from grace as a lady in waiting to the John son White House. At the same time, her constant companion, ex-Harper's Editor Willie Morris, would write a novel transparently based on the same material. Alas, it might have been better if Morris had ghosted the memoir and Howar attempted a novel...
...BOOK OF DREAMS by PETER REICH 172 pages. Harper...
...climbed out of the cellar with an 8-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park yesterday. Carl Yazstrzemski socked two home runs to knock in three runs, and Tommy Harper had one homer and four RBIs...
Pauline Kael's transformations are upsetting not only because of her influence, but because of what some of us once felt Kael herself could have become. If the early '60s, when she wrote for small film journals, literary quarterlies, and an occasional Atlantic or Harper's, she seemed one of the few writers since Agee able to avoid the occasional literary pretensiousness of Eastern critics, the self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self...
...pages by September. Co-Founder John Killion predicts the magazine will be in the black from now on. "We had no background in music," says Killion, "but we knew what we wanted: quality writing and photography." Killion and his partners−Russell Barnard, who is publisher of Harper's, and Spencer Oettinger, the former shoe manufacturer−needed first of all an editor and a backer. They recruited Peter McCabe, a writer for Rolling Stone, to run the magazine and coaxed Publisher John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. into putting his company behind the project...