Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the New York Times's non-fiction bestseller list, U.S. readers, after briefly preferring Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind, decided they liked Peace of Mind better, after...
...there had been any real question about which horse was king of Calumet, the question was answered. There had never been any doubt in the mind of wise old Ben Jones. Says he: "Unless he has a bad break, I believe you may see the greatest horse of all time before Citation is through...
...about his mind," said Fleur. The madness was mutual. Mike Cowles found that his bride had so many ideas for Look that he put her to work on it. She knew little about magazine editing but she knew what she liked-and thought other women would too. She added sections for women, tied in the covers to fashion features, saw that every issue had "female appeal." Look began capturing women readers. "Before," says Fleur, "it was bought by two million men, and women read it sort of by inheritance...
Crowell-Collier bosses were vague about the firing. Said Publisher William L. Chenery: They just thought "a different type of mind in the job would make for a stronger team . . ." Snapped Morris: "That's a better answer than...
Gide averaged about a book a year (poetry, fiction, drama or criticism); he also had a hand in half a dozen magazines. On the Revue Blanche he succeeded Leéon Blum as literary critic. ("Blum has the precise kind of mind that congeals mine at a distance and whose lucid brilliance keeps mine muscle-bound as it were and reduced to impotence.") Trying his hand as a publisher, Gide pulled one of the greatest boners in literary history when he turned down a first novel by Marcel Proust: Swann...