Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read man. His friends are endlessly amazed at his mastery of the contents of magazines which they regard as highbrow (Atlantic, Harper's, Saturday Review of Literature...
...such Hearst magazines as Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful and Good Housekeeping have not been touched by the new broom. But their turn may come. A new editor and other new staffers have already moved in on Hearst's American Druggist and it will soon come out fortnightly instead of monthly...
...more than 100,000 copies. Many young writers seemed to be aiming for the popular market and making a botch of it, or trying to build novels out of private despairs and ending by being precious bores. For the first time since it was set up in 1922, the Harper Prize ($10,000, richest in the U.S.) was not awarded. Of the 599 manuscripts considered, only two were judged even worth publishing...
Last week bookstores were peddling a new and thorough biographical study of Shahn by Poet-Critic Selden Rodman (Portrait of the Artist as an American; Harper, $6.50). Rodman got most of his material from the horse's mouth, but could not make Shahn a horse of a definite color. What the book captures is the brilliant shimmer of a man too seldom at a loss. "Shahn," Rodman explains, "is a man of paradoxes...
Somebody is always rising to announce that mankind has arrived at a dead end, or at least a stop light. In the October issue of Harper's, a new warning voice rolls out, announcing that civilization's "400-year boom" is over because civilized nations have no more geographical frontiers to push back. The voice comes, oddly enough, from Texas. It belongs to Professor Walter Prescott Webb, a thoughtful student of history...