Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Launched in a flurry of prepublication testimonials and press attention (Harper's magazine will devote most of its April issue to printing the entire novel), Author Price's book is a brief, appealing, generally unpretentious tale of a young girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial. It is a good first novel, masterfully put together, and it deserves its jackpot luck, wrong reasons notwithstanding...
...smaller literary and topical journals would have no such power. For they carry little or no advertising, and have many long-term subscribers. Their predicament is illustrated by Harper's: John Fischer, its editor, says that the proposed increase would cost his magazine $115 thousand, although its greatest profit since the War has been only $60 thousand...
...fireworks were imported from the Riviera. The chartered jet flew in from New York with a cargo of famous stars and freeloaders (a redundancy in part). Zsa Zsa was there, and so was Fashion Model Cristina Paolozzi, famed for her recent bare-breasted exposure in Harper's Bazaar, and now doing penance in the form of a needlepoint sampler that reads NUTS TO YOU ("For Mother," she explained). For dancing, there was Society Bandleader Meyer Davis ($7,500 for four hours of music-$1,000 per hour overtime); for super glamour there were the Prince and Princess of Windisch...
...they didn't work." But this, insisted the man who is reputed to be John F. Kennedy's favorite mystery author, was merely "a strong indictment of the CIA." Reverting to her pre-Pulitzer past, when she came within a semester of a law degree. Novelist Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird) Lee, 35, cast herself in the unlikely role of occasional legal adviser and researcher for Truman Capote, a longtime friend from Scouting days in Monroeville, Ala. After accompanying the aging (37) boy author on a fact-finding and mood-gathering trip to Garden City, Kans.-the scene...
...ATTIC (352 pp.)-Richard Hughes-Harper...