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Granted that a heavy percentage of every publisher's seasonal list could well be doused with something or other, preferably Mum, this sort of thing nevertheless will deeply alarm all right-thinking (and right-smelling) readers. The precedent raises dreadful possibilities: a whiff of chloroform for Not As a Stranger, essence of unwashed T-shirt for On the Road and the odor of sanctity for The Power of Positive Thinking...
...million from Ipana, Bufferin, Mum, Vitalis, etc.) and family-held Grove Laboratories, Inc. (estimated sales: $10 million from Fitch, Bromo Quinine, Four-Way Cold Tablets). In secret talks, Bristol-Myers is offering cash and stock, figures deal would add 25? to estimated 1957 per-share earnings...
...problem now appears solved by a set of morals-based readers called the Golden Rule Series, published by the American Book Co. of New York City. Subtitle of the series: the Modern McGuffey Readers. Wary of its competitors, American is keeping mum about its total sales. But, says contented President Grant Houston Brown: "We haven't had such an immediate acceptance in 30 years...
...attracting young minds to science, Silber is not certain that he will be able to finish his project. Reason: his money runs out in December. He has asked NIH for another $6,700, but at week's end was still sweating out a decision. If NIH was keeping mum about Silber's request, one official was willing to pass out some high praise for Teacher Silber: "He is an enthusiastic and very competent scientist...
Apologies & Effigies. Hurt and shaken, Barbara Smith managed to swallow her pride. "The ultimate success of integration at the university," she said, "is much more important than my appearance in the opera." With that Barbara kept mum -and university officials were ordered to do the same. But last week a series of events proved that integration had achieved a far greater measure of success than Barbara-or anyone else-had realized. Seldom had the university been the center of such a storm of indignation...