Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Wlttieisms," by Herbert V. Prochnow; 332.pp. Harper and Brothers, New York...
THESE LOVERS FLED AWAY, by Howard Spring (483 pp.; Harper; $4.50), starts at the turn of the century with a handful of corny characters in a Cornish setting, then marches through all the pomp, circumstance, sweat and tears of three generations of 20th century Britain. Playwright Chad Boothroyd, the hero, loves Rose Garland. Rose, a rather dreary dreg of tea, is invariably presented to the reader in a gown of crimson silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more...
...flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house at Harper's Ferry...
INSIDE AFRICA (952 pp.)-John Gunther-Harper...
...Astronomer Fred Hoyle of Cambridge University takes delight in setting off mathematical firecrackers under his more conservative colleagues. Hoyle glories in the mysteries that swarm in the inexhaustible sky, and he believes that they should be attacked boldly-from all possible angles. In his new book, Frontiers of Astronomy (Harper; $5), he pelts most of the astronomical mysteries with showers of theories. Some of these theories, he says, "are well known and well tried, but sometimes they are less well known and sometimes they lie at the very frontiers of knowledge...