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...October, School Chancellor Harvey B. Scribner insisted that the children go to Wilson. Some 200 white parents, most of them housewives, thereupon locked themselves into the building, forcing it to close. Equally adamant, the Brownsville parents rented a bus and took their children to class. For three days the whites occupied the school, sleeping on the gym floor. Outside, the black children sat aboard their bus throughout the class hours and then returned home for the night...
Threats of a court order routed out the parents, but soon Chancellor Scribner vacillated. Hoping to reduce hostilities, he reassigned the Brownsville children to nearby Isaac Bildersee Junior High School, which is 97% white. Within a week, Scribner was overruled by the city's central school board, which declared that the Brownsville children had "already been the victims of traumatic rejection," had had their educations interrupted for seven weeks, and should not serve as the "battering ram" to integrate Bildersee...
Conventional bookshops have felt the impact too. In Manhattan's courtly old Scribner Book Store on Fifth Avenue, books on the occult have completely taken over a counter that was once reserved for more traditional religious books (theological, inspirational and other churchly volumes are now relegated to a side bookcase...
ALTHOUGH I'VE long been aware that some adults have the habit of giving themselves Christmas presents, it seems strange that a publishing house should do the same. But why else would Scribner's have published as gratuitous a volume as Dear Scott-Dear Max if not to put under the Christmas tree at the home office? The majority of the material has already appeared in Fitzgerald's and Perkins's collected letters, so that the only purpose of this book is to bring the correspondence between Scribner's famous author and Scribner's famous editor together under the same...
...line drawing animal illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard (Copyright 1933, 1953, Charles Scribner's Sons; renewal copyright 1961 Ernest H. Shepard) from the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame are reproduced by permission Charles Scribner's Sons...