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...Paul Schoenstein, managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the manuscript submitted by Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen was "a true blockbuster." By newspaper standards, to be sure, it was bulky. But last week, with a blast of trumpets, all 50,000 words landed on the pages of the Journal-American...
Died. Kathryn Messner, 61, Manhattan book publisher, who in 1955 accepted a manuscript that five other publishers had rejected, spent a year editing and toning down its lurid, sex-studded account of small-town U.S. life, saw the gamble pay off as Grace Metalious' Peyton Place sold over 300,000 copies of her hardback edition and later brought in handsome royalties from 8,000,000 paperback sales; after a long illness; in West Long Branch...
...President. All the fun people joined in-Peggy Cass, Dody Goodman, Harold Lang, Dagmar, Kaye Ballard, Jacques d'Amboise, Melissa Hayden, Vicki Cummings and lots of others-and everybody got dressed up in the wildest costumes while Cris Alexander took loads of simply outrageous pictures. Pat's manuscript had everybody in stitches. The joke was a good one when Cecil Beaton produced My Royal Past a generation ago; now, under Dennis' heavier hand, ersatz autobiography-with-snapshots is nothing but a drag...
...University of Chicago (A.B.) at 17, Judson at 21 wrote The Techniques of Reading, a widely used textbook for college freshmen who want to learn how to read faster and with more comprehension. A onetime bureaucrat (as a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Berlin), reading teacher, book manuscript editor, advertising copywriter and account executive, Judson is now a mainstay of TIME'S BOOKS staff. As might be expected, he reads faster than most people, but he considers himself slow as a writer, spent some 70 hours at the typewriter on the Faulkner story...
...plan of study introduced by Emma Willard in the 19th century, the curriculum integrates its studies of art, religion, music and literature into single historical eras. A freshman studies ancient history. A sophomore learning about the Renaissance studies the medieval church, listens to Gregorian chants, designs an illuminated manuscript in her art class. The junior year concentrates on the industrial revolution, and the senior year on modern times...