Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...
...court order which Hurvitz and Segel admitted in the settlement to have violated was obtained in 1933 from U. S. District Judge Elisha H. Brewster by Macmillan Company in conjunction with Houghton, Mifflin Company, Ginn and Company, and Harper Brothers. Some of their books and had been pirated by the College Tutoring Bureau...
...decree was obtained by the MacMillan Company in conjunction with Houghton, Mifflin Company, Ginn and Company, and Harper and Brothers for pirating sections of books, most of which were written by Harvard professors...
DILDO CAY-Nelson Hayes-Houghton Miff I in ($2.50). West Indies novel, by a 36-year-old, French-born, U. S.-educated Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis...
...Club has wanted to produce its play for a long time, and this seems to be the best opportunity." Sheppard, the president, stated. Norris Houghton was asked to stage the play, but he was occupied with a study of the theatre financed by a Rockefeller grant...