Word: publishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prescott says he wrote his journals with an eye toward their becoming the raw material for a novel, but that he realized that the market was glutted with young-man-grows-up novels, so he sat on the thing for twenty years and then decided to publish it as was, with an explanatory commentary threading the reprinted selections of the journal together. He did not think he could have duplicated This Side of Paradise, which is undoubtedly true, and he used that as an excuse to duck any obligation to turn his book into a novel...
Representatives of the Guinnesses, the Anglo-Irish beerage nobility who publish the Book of Records, which they claim is the world's biggest-selling volume after the Bible, were not all that amused by the heroics in Los Angeles. They will have to update the Book of Records-and now that just about every record in existence is open to challenge by oddball Olympians-will face the prospect of constant and frequent revisions...
...GOOD of President Nixon to publish the transcripts. Of course, if he wanted to record his advisors' conversations, he should probably have asked their permission first, but both he and they have so much else to answer for that a little bugging among friends isn't even worth mentioning. As historical or legal evidence, the tapes would have carried more weight than edited versions of Nixon's favorite excerpts from them. But as long as the transcripts exist, it's only fair for us to be able to read them--it's always interesting to recall the battles...
...said special efforts would be made to publish the Calendar of Events, which appears in each week's Gazette, even if the entire paper cannot be published...
...three years after the taping began, Khrushchev's associates in the memoir project decided that it was time to act. Little, Brown and Time Inc. acquired the right to publish the first portion of the memoirs. In an introduction written for Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, who was chief of the TIME-LIFE bureau in Moscow from 1968 until 1970, notes that: "Because these were the unsanctioned words of a deposed leader, the transcripts of the tapes were handled in much the same way as novels, poetry, and other 'underground' Soviet...