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...time and best efforts into this one novel. But he was so entangled with the book that he could never bring himself to stop revising, adding, "perfecting." He refused to let it out of his hands. Only with his death, in 1962, could the manuscript be prepared for the printer. The process required drastic editorial surgery: the present book represents about one-third of the manuscript Farrell left...
...Perception Proof? The bachot, or "bac," is drawn up by 30 eminent French professors, who submit it to the Education Ministry. Then the exam goes to the National Printing Office, where no printer sets more than a single line of type. The printed copies are kept in safes until three days before exam time, when envelopes containing the dreaded test are distributed to regional centers. At the same hour throughout the country, the seals are broken to start the trial that every French youth has worked toward for 16 to 18 years...
...started on the strength of an earlier publishing success: the boys cleared $57 on a tabloid newspaper they sold throughout the city's eight high schools. To start their magazine, Goldberg and Gould first signed up 570 advance subscriptions, hustled ads from local merchants and talked the printer into a $200 loan. Tempo's debut absorbed all $720 of the starting capital, but Goldberg and Gould are already laying out two more issues...
...monthly of 48 years, last week was missing and presumed dead. It had not distributed an issue since January. The New York Times finally noticed its absence with a theater-page obituary, but others seemed less willing to say farewell to Theater Arts (last circulation: 50,000): neither the printer, who refused to distribute the February issue until the magazine paid an overdue bill for $31,000; nor Editor-Publisher Byron Bentley, who kept his office open until May 28, when the phone was disconnected; nor Movie Distributor Sidney Kaufman, who has been vainly trying since last fall...
...which picks the winners. Some of the other arts-and-letters awards, though, testified to a painstaking search for merit. The history award went to Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, a book that was rejected by two publishers before Author Sumner Chilton Powell found a printer. Powell fielded his prize with special gratitude. He hoped, he said, that it might help him on his newest project: finding a suitable...