Word: tryon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fields's contemporaries thought such stuff sublime, he was nevertheless able to convince anyone that he was a poet who happened to be a publisher, not a publisher who played at poetry. The result was that authors felt Fields was on their side. But some of Tryon's best scenes show the lofty-minded Fields and his purehearted poets haggling about percentages...
PARNASSUS CORNER by W. S. Tryon. 384 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...better publisher than most. Fields instituted the practice, revolutionary before the international copyright law was signed, of paying royalties to British authors. And the reader is rather fond of him when he retires from the book trade to lecture yokel audiences on "cheerfulness" and his recollections of Whittier. Historian Tryon treats his subject gently in a placid Victorian prose that is almost too well suited to his subject...
...astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...
...Other White House fathers: John Adams, Nathaniel Fillmore, Jesse Root Grant, George Tryon Harding...