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PRESCOTT'S HISTORIES edited by Irwin R. Blacker. 568 pages. Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Historian as Novelist | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Prescott is often quoted today, but seldom, if ever, read. To put him back into circulation, Historian Irwin Blacker has soldered together generous excerpts from Prescott's four books-Ferdinand and Isabella, The Conquest of Mexico, The Conquest of Peru and Philip II. Prescott may have had no first-hand experience of Spain, but he had what was perhaps better-good friends in the U.S. diplomatic service. He used them to get access to documents in Madrid that no historian had seen before. The scaffolding of fact upon which Prescott constructed his books was so solid that more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Historian as Novelist | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...approach that problem is simply to deplore it. In his keynote talk. Irwin Maier, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal and president of the A.N.P.A., worked up a good deal of enthusiasm doing just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors & Publishers: The Ultimate Weapon | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Casting itself could not produce a more classic prototype of the Hollywood producer. He chomps cigars, calls everybody baby except babies, speaks nine languages, all of them except his native German with a heavy accent. He is a hard man to work for. The story goes that when Writer Irwin Shaw was working on Waterfront, his wife awoke one morning at 3 o'clock to find her husband in the bathroom, shaving. What was he doing? "I'm going out to kill Sam Spiegel," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Emperor | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes often came out smelling like sulphur. Many began to echo the wry dismay of Irwin Gott, a Houston jeweler-turned-drycleaner: "I didn't intend this to be a nonprofit corporation; it just turned out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: The Troubles of Coin-Ops | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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