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...Eton and Harrow standards, strange things happen on the playing fields of Clayesmore. A small (290 pupils), progressive school in Dorset. Clayesmore believes in strenuous academic fare as well as in teaching its boys to fell trees, lay bricks, mix concrete, build walls, weave baskets. It also likes them to study nature in field and forest. Last week British scientific circles were buzzing over just how far Clayesmore will go. The school had suddenly emerged as a full-fledged authority on the toad...
...convertible, and Frank Yerby (The Foxes of Harrow) commutes between the Riviera and Long Island. Such fiction-factory owners as Erie Stanley Gardner live as well as factory owners...
...belief in the divine truths." "He was so shy," reports a visitor, "that [his mother] was forced to send for him three times before she could persuade him to come into the drawing room." "He was loud, even coarse . . . a rough, curly-headed boy . . . nothing more," says a Harrow schoolmate...
Sales of the novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's books have earned him an estimated $1,000,000 (exclusive of movie and magazine rights). The really intriguing item in this success story is that Yerby is a Negro - a Negro whose stuff is just as terrible (and entertaining) as any white author...
...shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned out in one night (by day Yerby worked in a plane factory), Joel gave him a $250 advance. The book became The Foxes of Harrow...