Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of two children, received the news in a Buffalo veterans' hospital-where, as an ex-soldier with an officially blameless record, he is receiving treatment for a wartime back injury. He was jubilant. Icardi, now working as a law clerk in Pittsburgh, announced that he hoped to publish a book giving the "true" story of his commander's death. But, officially speaking, the Holohan case seemed closed for good...
...thousands to congratulate you and your staff . . . Blessings on you for the courage to come out with political views the way you have . . . Ignore the slams you'll get ... Truth hurts, and it's about time someone had guts enough to publish the truth . . . I've read that "Eye of the Nation" article five times...
...suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed from six different Boston addresses...
Novelist Tucker and her publishers should do all right, anyhow. Seven years ago, before leaving for a long stay in Europe, she drew a modest, $250 advance from Random House. Nine months ago, Lael Tucker (wife of Novelist-TIME, Oct. 16, 1950-Charles Christian Wertenbaker) turned in Lament for Four Virgins. After a close look, Random House not only decided to publish it but sold reprint rights, in advance of publication, to Bantam Books for $35,000-a Bantam record for a first novel...
...year," he said-Gray fell into what he guardedly called "a certain disposition of mind." At. such times, he wrote poems. Over a period of ten years, he completed six of them, and Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published...