Word: harpers
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...business. No undergraduate could fail to be affected by the changes of a thoughtful, farsighted president; none could fail to realize that "the noblest institution in the land" had effected a change in his life. Clarence Randall, Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt, and Frederick Lewis Allen, Associate Editor of Harper's were all members of the class of 1912, along with William L. Laurence, science editor of the New York Times; Raymond S. Wilkins, an Overseer; and Harry Wolfson, a Harvard professor. They were witness with their fellows to the beginning of a chapter of the College's history...
There sat Diana Vreeland, a regal figure in black. For a quarter-century Diana had been fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. But Diana was eying the procession as associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model...
...autobiographical fantasy about an old writer named John Donner who returns to his home town in Pennsylvania, won the National Book Award, defeating such competition as John Updike's Rabbit, Run, John Hersey's The Child Buyer, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The present novel is a sequel to Kronos. The fantasy is gone. It is a straightforward account of the life of John Donner's fa ther, a country preacher...
Some magazines that manage to pay their own way also stand in serious if not mortal danger. Last year, for example, four magazines addressed primarily to contemplative readers-Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Catholic Digest and Saturday Review-together netted only $55,74° on a combined circulation of 1,557,000. The new postal rates would add some $535,000 to their combined postal bill. Atlantic Monthly Publisher Donald Snyder has estimated that his magazine's share alone would be $91,000-more than seven times Atlantic's 1961 profit before taxes...
ISLAND (335 pp.)-Aldous Huxley-Harper...