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...board to evade the mandate of the Faculty. Michael W. Bate '58 Robert L. Brandfon GSAS '62 James F. Gilligan '57 Joseph D. Hinkle L'67 Robert H. Johnson '61 Richard J. Levy '58 James A. Sharaf '59 Ralph F. Fuller L'49 John T. Williams '60 Ernest T. Winsor...
British Author Hunter Davies recently sold the U.S. publishing rights to his forthcoming biography The Beatles to McGraw-Hill for $150,000. Harold Robbins gets $500,000 in advance for every novel he dictates. Kathleen Winsor (Forever Amber) got $500,000 from New American Library for the paperback rights to her 1965 slow-selling novel Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West. Norman Mailer's contract with the same publisher guarantees him $450,000 apiece for his next two novels-plus a possible bonus...
...ALFRED WINSOR...
...himself-and usually directs all important financial negotiations for his top authors. "In one month," he said recently, "I sold the paperback rights on three books for $1.7 million-Michen-er's The Source for $700,000, Capote's In Cold Blood for $500,000, and Kathleen Winsor's Wanderers East, Wanderers West for $500,000. Then a month later I sold O'Hara's The Lockwood Concern for another half-million...
Ever since it began training teachers, Bank Street has shunned "how to teach" courses, insisted that, as Vice President Charlotte Winsor explains, "the first step in learning to be a teacher is learning how to learn." On that principle, the school accepts only graduate students who already hold liberal arts degrees from other colleges. It throws its students immediately into practice teaching in the public schools, emphasizes individual instruction, and hopes that its graduates will get the idea that teaching is not a mass-production matter. "We try to do unto teachers as we hope they will do unto their...