Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOBBY STORIES (159 pp.)-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner...
...unanimous vote, the Pulitzer Advisory Board handed the "distinguished biography" award ($500) to William A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), a meticulously impartial study of the Hearst publishing empire's progenitor. Instead of ratifying the board's choice, however, trustees of New York's Columbia University chose to overrule it by awarding no biography prize...
Wouk has altered the Wolfe legend with a startlingly original switch: Maxwell Perkins, the wise old Scribner editor who deftly chopped millions of words from Wolfe's brilliant but lardy first drafts, becomes Jeanie Green, a wise young editor. By day, she pencils the superfluous from Hawke's chapters; by night, she is his lady love. Not all night, of course; Wouk heroines are good girls...
SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED (277 pp.)-A Ring Lardner Selection edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan-Scribner...
...fact that one was treated at home by her husband led him to hope that the technique can be made safe for widespread use. At the same meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs where Dr. Merrill made his report. Seattle's Dr. Belding Scribner carried the do-it-yourself idea a long step farther. Though the irrigation has to be repeated over several hours with a total of about 20 qt. of fluid. Dr. Scribner described a machine with a reservoir and an automatic cycling system with which, he suggested, a patient might be able...