Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row; $4.95). The leading American children's writer has turned out another delightful story this one about Jennie, a discontented terrier who leaves the lap of luxury to become an actress with the World Mother Goose Theater...
...LION by Liesel Moak Skorpen, illustrated by Ursula Landshoff (Harper & Row; $2.50). A little girl muses: "I'd invite my lion to share my bed," and eat and play, and go on picnics and "we would be the best of friends ... if I had a lion...
Least Impact. Doubleday & Co. paid Kennedy a handsome $150,000 advance-making this the first of his four books not to be published by Harper & Row, which roused his ire during last year's acrid controversy over William Manchester's The Death of a President. Despite the fact that Look magazine also clashed with Bobby over its serialization of the Manchester book, Bobby accepted an additional $10,000 or so from the magazine for his new book's chapter on Viet...
Royster, in a way, offers his younger colleague at Harper's a word of caution: beware the pitfalls of overestimating youth. "We are all excited by youth and vigor," he writes, "the young because they share it and the rest of us because we remember it. But the greater difficulty is that none of us-even young people themselves-really put as much stock in it as we all pretend to. When we must put the great affairs of life in another man's hands, we almost always turn to the mature-even the fatherly-image." Royster...
...chairman, Fiat; George W. Ball, chairman, Lehman Bros. International; Eugene Black, director, Chase Manhattan Bank; Norton Clapp, chairman, Weyerhaeuser Co.; Howard L. Clark, president, American Express; Russell R. De Young, chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Floyd D. Hall, president, Eastern Airlines; Robert V. Hansberger, president, Boise Cascade; John D. Harper, president, Aluminum Co. of America; Earl B. Hathaway, president, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; H. J. Heinz II, chairman, H. J. Heinz Co.; Robert C. Hills, president, Freeport Sulphur Co.; Edward B. Hinman, president, International Paper Co.; Dr. Koji Kobayashi, president, Nippon Electric Co.; Rudolph A. Peterson, president, Bank of America...