Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEP RIGHT UP! (270 pp.]-Don Mannix-Harper...
FESTIVAL (607 pp.]-J. B. Priestley-Harper...
...everything I ve ever wanted has been given me-so naturally I'm optimistic." With the help of his brother, a printer, Guest personally published his first three books of verse Encouraged by their modest sale, he submitted the fourth, A Heap o' Livin', to both Harper and Doubleday. Both turned it down and the book was eventually brought out by Reilly & Lee, the Chicago house that has issued all 22 of his subsequent books. A Heap o' Livin' sold more than half a million copies, and so deeply moved certain members of a school...
Bernard De Voto '18, author, will speak on free-lance writing. De Voto was formerly with the Saturday Review of Literature and is now editor of "The Easy Chair" department of Harper's Magazine...
...drug, Kutrol,* launched last week by Parke, Davis & Co. (the M-G-M of Pharmaceuticals) as a cure for peptic (stomach) ulcers, has passed through all these stages. It was developed by Dr. David J. Sandweiss of Harper Hospital, Detroit, who had noted that pregnancy, for some unknown reason, gives almost certain relief to women with peptic ulcers (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949). Since 80% of all ulcer sufferers are men, who cannot benefit from pregnancy, Dr. Sandweiss prepared an extract of the urine of pregnant mares. He named it "anthelone" (Greek for anti-ulcer), and made a hopeful but guarded...