Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riches story. But the Tax Reform Act of 1969 required tax-exempt Boys Town to file a public statement of financial position for the first time. Warren Buffett, 41, owner of seven Omaha weekly newspapers that have already won two national awards, last week seized the opportunity to publish the first expose of Boys Town's finances; a six-man team headed by Editor Paul Williams had worked on the project since November. Buffett, a Protestant and self-made millionaire who until two years ago ran a successful investment firm, concluded that Boys Town was mesmerized by its fund...
...weeded peanut fields, harvested watermelons, lived with sharecroppers, and learned about things that he, as a student, had never been close to. He also kept a journal, a present-tense day-by-day record and commentary that, as he finally had to admit to himself, he hoped to publish. With a very little editing, that journal became Watermelon Summer...
...LIFE'S story. One of the strongest denunciations came from Vice President Spiro Agnew. In Los Angeles for a press conference of high school journalists, Agnew declared, "I don't have a high respect for a magazine that has such a high gullibility quotient that they would publish the Clifford Irving story." LIFE, of course, never did publish the Irving story. Agnew added, "The best and most charitable thing LIFE could do would be to follow the course taken by Look magazine"-which folded last year. But when he was asked repeatedly whether the LIFE article was accurate...
...indictments, the New York and federal grand juries agreed on the essentials: Irving and Suskind concocted the Hughes "autobiography" 1) through extensive research into material already published about the billionaire, 2) from a pilfered manuscript written by Journalist James Phelan for an old Hughes associate, Noah Dietrich (TIME, Feb. 21), and 3) from their own imaginations. In doing their research, Irving and Suskind visited newspaper and magazine libraries in Las Vegas, Houston, New York and other cities, including that of LIFE, which had a contract to publish excerpts from the manuscript. Thus steeped in Hughesian lore, Suskind and Irving took...
...help women with re-entry problems, several books have recently appeared with titles such as Have You Had It in the Kitchen? (Grosset & Dunlap) and The Back to Work Handbook for Housewives (Collier Books). This spring Simon & Schuster will publish one with a title that tells it all: How to Go to Work When Your Husband Is Against It, Your Children Aren't Old Enough and There's Nothing You Can Do Anyhow...