Word: jacketful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pasternak & Profits. Few university publishers can claim quite the enterprise of the University of Michigan's Fred Wieck, an ex-Henry Regnery Co. executive, who took over an unimpressive setup in 1954 and built it into a $1,000,000 operation noted for stunning jacket designs. Last winter Wieck published the first Russian-language edition of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in the Western Hemisphere and sold an amazing 15,000 copies, is following this week with a collection of Pasternak's poems in English that is likely to sell even better. Says Publisher Wieck: "There...
...Elizabeth, Jack Paar, Ludwig Erhard, Mao Tse-tung). Born in Brooklyn 35 years ago, he studied art at Pratt Institute near his home, served with aviation engineers in the China-Burma-India theater during the war (rode a truck on the Burma Road), turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover for TIME in April 1957 (Morocco's King Mohammed...
...resembled a kind of Junior Red Army outfit, with high-buttoned tunic and heavy-visored cap. Since Stalin's death, the uniform has come under increasing fire as unbecoming and warlike. Last week boys in Moscow and Leningrad showed up with the official new look: an open-lapelled jacket, to be worn with shorts or long pants and topped by a casual European beret. The girls, though, will get no break. They go on wearing the same stern pinafore that dates from the time of Catherine the Great...
...foreign authors have been presented to U.S. readers with the kind of endorsement that appears on the dust jacket of The Restlessness of Shanti An-dia. The testimonial was delivered in person by Ernest Hemingway, as Pio Baroja, 83, lay dying in his Madrid apartment three years ago. Said Hemingway: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved...
Like big city cops all the way from Manhattan to Tokyo, police in once placid Amsterdam were being run ragged by teen-age punks. Dressed in juvenile delinquency's international uniform-leather jacket and blue jeans-Amsterdam's longhaired nozem* liked to roar around the city's central Dam Square on souped-up motorcycles, scaring tourists, chasing pretty girls and disrupting traffic. Time and again police squads charged gangs of nozem with batons and sabers swinging; the nozem continued to flourish, and nozempie kijken-watching the nozem-became a popular evening pastime in Amsterdam...