Word: paperbacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier plans for a London production with Dame Judith Anderson have been cancelled. Although the work has not yet been produced professionally, Hill & Wang last month published the text of Kopit's play in both hard-cover and paperback editions, with an introduction by Gaynor F. Bradish '52, instructor in English...
...this year of $4,100, and his contract was not renewed. But long before this error, Olson had made another. When five average-bright boys in his room shunned all reading, Olson remembered The Stranger's powers. To get them interested in reading, he gave the lads paperback editions of the book, assigned the first chapter. In short order, one 13-year-old's mother discovered "obscene" passages. She called another mother, who called the school board, which called the state police, who arrested Olson. In his nearby home town of Escanaba the Press headlined the story: TEACHER...
...winter's day in Philadelphia 56 years ago, 15-year-old Emanuel Julius invested a dime in a paperback edition of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. It was, as it turned out, the wisest investment of his life. As Julius recalls in The World of Haldeman-Julius, an anthology of his writings published last week (Twayne Publishers of New York; 288 pp.; $4). Wilde's poem did something to him. "Never did I so much as notice that my hands were blue, that my wet nose was numb, and that my ears felt hard...
...helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...attractive children's books. And contrary to gloomy predictions, TV encourages more reading. Margaret C. Scoggin, coordinator of Young Adult Services for New York public libraries, says that "any story which appears on TV immediately creates a demand for the book in the libraries." She thinks that the paperback boom also boosts library circulation: "The more a student reads, the more he wants to read, the more he buys, and the more he borrows." For more and more U.S. youngsters, says Agnes Krarup, head of the schools department of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, "to be well read...