Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect it, Jackie Kennedy's attorneys requested and received a "show-cause" order from the New York State Supreme Court requiring Manchester, Harper & Row, which was to publish the book April 7, and Look magazine, which was to begin serializing it Jan. 10, to explain in a hearing next week why they should not be barred from bringing out the book. The charge: Manchester and his publishers had violated a "Memorandum of Understanding" and gone ahead with the book without an O.K. from the Kennedy family...
...Harper & Row, something of a Kennedy "house," was chosen to be the publisher. Harper Executive Vice President Evan W. Thomas II, son of quadrennial Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas, had edited Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bobby's The Enemy Within, ex-Presidential Speechwriter Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy. Thomas foresaw trouble, at first declined the offer to edit and publish the book. But Bobby finally persuaded him. All profits after the first printing were to go to the John F. Kennedy Library at Harvard. Manchester got an advance of less than $50,000 for expenses from...
...been pure agony," said Manchester at one point, and the agony did not end when he turned his manuscript-pruned from 1,400 to 1,200 pages-over to Harper's Thomas at the turn of the year. Neither Bobby nor Jackie wanted to read it because, as a friend said, it would be "far too painful." But they farmed out copies to five close friends, most notably John Seigenthaler, an ex-Justice Department aide who is now editor of the Nashville Tennessean, and Edwin Guthman, a former aide of Bobby's who is now national news editor...
...version, with its furiously paced hallelujahs, is hard-hitting theater. The second new recording, by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Colin Davis (Philips), manages to scale the same emotional heights, but with less apparent effort. Moreover, Davis has a superior soprano in Heather Harper, whose floating arias alone are worth the price of the records...
Dependable Losers. The major houses produce titles in the hundreds; their bosses can scarcely remember the authors' names, let alone find time to read their books. McGraw-Hill turned out 662 last year, Doubleday & Co. 650, Harper & Row 633, Prentice-Hall 449, Holt, Rinehart & Winston 345 and Random House 421. They all print text-and reference books, as well as children's books, which are dependable moneymakers. Their profitable textbook and paperback operations enable them to gamble on adult trade books-which as a rule lose money. Random House President Robert Bernstein estimates that 60% of adult trade...