Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best Sellers FICTION 1. A Shade of Difference, Drury (1, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. Ship of Fools, Porter (3) 4. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins (7) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (6) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (4) 7. The Prize, Wallace (5) 8. The Thin Red Line, Jones (8) 9. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (9) 10. The Reivers, Faulkner (10) NONFICTION 1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 2. Silent Spring, Carson (1) 3. The Rothschilds, Morton (3) 4 My Life in Court, Nizer (4) 5! O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson...
...professorships will be created with money left to the College earlier this month by Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter. One may be a "University" professorship-a chair free of attachment to any single field, and carrying with it the highest academic distinction Harvard can offer...
That the professorship be of University rank was requested, but not required. Mrs. Porter's sole stipulation was that whatever its rank, the chair should be for only humanists or social scientists. In particular, she mentioned the fine arts, music, philosophy, and literature...
...second chair to be endowed with Mrs. Porter's money will go to whichever part of the University the Corporation wishes. President Pusey has not yet made any indication as to the exact field he will recommend to the Corporation...
...mediocre short story is merely a bore. But a writer who masters the form hears only the faintest of applause; his publisher wants to know when he is going to turn out a novel. Collections of short stories once helped launch such writers as Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter, but these days short stories are worth little in royalties and less in prestige. Irwin Shaw, for instance, is known less as one of the country's best short-story writers than as one of its least distinguished novelists...