Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...customers don't really even change. Take, for example, a conversation between oldtimers Sedgwick Witherspoon III '41 and former college sweetheart Candice Houghton Smith...
...China Boy ($19.95) is this season's major fiction offering from Dutton, which paid the novice writer an advance of nearly $100,000 and ordered a first printing of 75,000 copies. Houghton Mifflin, which had ordered 11,000 copies of Gish Jen's Typical American ($19.95), increased the run by 5,000 as prepublication excitement grew for this engaging tale of one immigrant family's pursuit of the American Dream. Two houses fought to publish Pangs of Love (Knopf; $19), Louie's sharp and quirky collection of short stories...
Much of the speculation on likely candidates has focused on a handful of scientists. Those names mentioned include Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Micheal B. McElroy. Knowles and McElroy were also candidates for the Harvard presidency...
DARK STAR by Alan Furst (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95). Plot is less important in this impressive spy novel than description, the re-creation of the nightmarish tensions that erupted during the 1930s between Soviet NKVD agents and Stalin's Georgian thugs...
...Houghton Mifflin; 417 pages...