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Looking back, Townsend says: "Chrysler had it all. It had the plants, the engineering, the money, the dealers, everything. But it all had to be put together." Chrysler's constantly improving slice of the U.S. auto market shows how well Townsend has put it together. The company's share of the market went up from 10.3% in 1962 to 18.4% during the first seven months of 1968. Profits soared from a meager $11 million on $2.1 billion sales in 1961 to last year's $200 million on $6.2 billion sales. That trend continued during the first half...
Most of Harvard's remaining professors found themselves understandably pre-occupied with the war. Charles Townsend Copeland might continue his annual poetry readings in Emerson Hall, but Pitirim Sorokin abandoned purely academic pursuits to perfect and publicize his plan for world peace--national sovereignty, he believed, had to be sacrificed for a world government with a monopoly of force...
...WHITE, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A compassionate biography of the tormented English author who re-created the legend of King Arthur in a new form part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic...
...WHITE by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 352 pages. Viking...
...Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...