Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to give flesh and blood to the characters of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Fenimore Cooper without betraying the imaginations of generations of children. Before his death in 1945, Wyeth had turned out nearly 7,000 illustrations, murals and paintings, including 16 editions of Scribner's Illustrated Classics...
...HAMMARSKJÖLD: A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT by Sven Stolpe. 127 pages. Scribner...
CORK STREET, NEXT TO THE HATTER'S by Pamela Hansford Johnson. 274 pages. Scribner...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, 73, the inventory spans half a century of ministry, including 32 years as a professor of Christian ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary and authorship of 20 volumes on theology and political philosophy. In a thin book called Man's Nature and His Communities (Scribner; $3.95), Niebuhr makes his summing-up. The volume is partly a confession of past errors, partly an ex planation of the reasons that led him to various public stances, partly an assertion of his deep faith in the pluralistic and open U.S. society...
...biggest growth in bookselling is occurring in the suburbs; of 149 stores opened last year, 60% were in the suburbs. "The real success stories," says Scribner's Kropotkin, "are found in the shopping centers, where stores are having to double their size overnight to accommodate the demand." Doubleday, Brentano's, and Kroch's have located most of their recent additions in suburban areas. Booksellers estimate that 40% of the population lives outside the range of present bookstores, feel that this is the area of unlimited expansion...