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...such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux limits its production to about 75 adult titles a year, including the books of Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud, who prefer their publisher to be small, cozy and literary...
Nobody yet knows how mergers of this kind will affect trade-book publishing, though many bookmen are pessimistic. Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, envisions huge factories that will turn out books like sausages. Big publishers "are through as serious influences in literature," he says. William Jovanovitch of Harcourt, Brace disagrees. He believes, with many other experts, that television, for instance, "has increased the use of books by contributing to an ambiance of information, art and instruction. Greater assimilation of information means greater literacy, and greater literacy means greater use of the language. And that's good...
Macy's Board Chairman Jack Straus expects to sell 4% to 5% more goods this Christmas than last, and most other retailers forecast the same. They are optimistic because the consumer is reliable: he regularly spends well over 930 out of every $1 that he takes home, and his purchasing goes up as his earnings go up. The National Industrial Conference Board reckons that, after he spends for necessities and such "fixed" savings as social security payments and pension-fund contributions, the consumer has more than 40% of his income left over for "discretionary" spending or investment; much...
Thoughts of the Straus Trophy went through players minds when the Leverett Bunnies squared off against Eliot. The Elephants prevailed, 3-0, and sent the Bunnies into their current tailspin in which they've lost three straight...
...Goodbye Straus...