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...each House, to be used to promote the intellectual and cultural activity within the Houses. Some money was devoted to contests, small dinners, or even building renovations, and to inviting distinguished guests to live in the Houses for a time--some who came here were author John P. Marquand '15, poet Robert Frost '01, writer Edmund Wilson, poet Marianne Moore and British civil servant Sir C. P. Snow...
...Marquand-Type Society. While Wilson signed a more or less routine contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie...
...professor's "permanent tenure," Novelist Wilson, at 37, hopes to become "an old-fashioned man of letters whose obituary lists 20 or so novels to his credit." Unpretentious about his writing so far ("a small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet: he does not own a gray flannel suit ("I won't have...
...Onetime Harvard President James B. Conant offered a terse definition of a university ("a place where people ask questions"), and Harvardmen Charles Malik (Ph.D., '37), Foreign Minister of Lebanon, Senator John Kennedy ('40). and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ('25) philosophized about Harvard. So did Author John Marquand ('15): "If you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it. I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover this error in my past." Wearily superior. Music Man Leonard Bernstein ('39) recited...
...movie includes scenes of the students, houses and activities at Harvard today. It also includes pictures of many great figures from Harvard's past. Former presidents Eliot, Lowell and Conant appear, along with the renowned professors Kittredge, Briggs and Hooton John P. Marquand '15 wrote the movie's script...