Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pops Advance for the third time, glowing heartily in self-congratulation, far too prosperous by now to worry about what may be written of it here. Those who publish and edit this journal of progressive Republican thought have good cause for contentment, for since their earliest effort of last January a mighty wash of tribute has poured into their Quincy House offices...
...deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion...
During the regular term candidates for the CRIMSON must endure a long and arduous competition to become members of the staff. But in the summer, the infrequency of publication makes it possible for any student in the Summer School to publish his work in the News if he has something to say and can say it well...
...money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local Indians, fired up True to publish archaeological papers in learned journals. In 1959 he sold part of his ranch for $10,000, let his wife and children run the rest, went off to enter U.C.L.A.'s "gifted students" program, wound up with a B.A. and a B+ average-enough to win a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship...
...Cancer might well be described, has now turned up in U.S. bookstores clad in a clean collegiate jacket, tailored at $7.50 by Grove Press, intellectual outfitters to the offbeat, the off-color and the off-limits (in 1959 Grove issued the unabridged Lady Chatterley's Lover). The publishers have so much confidence in Miller's notoriety that they paid the author $50,000 in advance and dumped a 30,000 printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks ahead of the announced publication date. All previous attempts to publish the book...