Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which also publishes Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Bride and Home, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Sports Afield, Motor Boating, American Druggist and Motor...
BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (147 pp.)-Aldous Huxley-Harper...
Holly is the heroine of the long title story in this four-story collection and the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...
...market. Drinkers acquired a preference for the milder blends against the headhammering effect of 100-proof straight bourbon. To recoup, ; distillers have been lightening bourbon toward the minimum allowable 80 proof, which also cuts the excise tax and lowers retail prices. Such leading brands as Schenley's I.W. Harper, National Distillers' Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad, now come in 86 proof, one reason for the rise of straight whiskies from 9% of the total market...
Galbraith also contributes frequently to Atlantic, The Reporter, and Harper's--book reviews, light off-beat articles, discussions with roots in economics but branches in all corners of the contemporary scene. His fluent presentation combines charm and wit, and as he remarks in the foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded...