Word: messner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOUD OVER HIROSHIMA, by Burt Hirschfeld (Julian Messner; $3.95). The story of the atomic bomb, told with accuracy and excitement...
Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled...
...downhill, while U.S. skiers soared birdlike off the bumps, provoking "ahs" from fans (and losing time), the Austrians kept their skis in the snow. Heini Messner, an auto mechanic from Gries am Brenner, won the race - with three other Austrians and a Frenchman strung out behind. The star of the meet was France's Jean Claude Killy, 21, who showed why he is the best slalom skier in the world: cutting the gates so close that his sweater brushed the poles, Killy won both the special slalom and the giant slalom. The best the U.S. could do was third...
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...
...BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST edited by Jay Monaghan. 608 pages. Julian Messner. $22.50. On the theory that, despite the efforts of television, there are still a few Americans who would not know a waddy (cowboy) from his gelding-smacker (saddle), this volume ranges over the life of the West, devoting whole chapters to its outlaws, reptiles, guns, big game, songs and legends. The text is informative, the paintings and drawings, by Remington, Bierstadt, Russell and others, are splendidly direct and realistic, and much of what a reader might have taken for shaggy Western lore turns out surprisingly...