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...would not be able to sit at Scribner's and have wonderful authors turn up in the morning mail. He would be out grubbing with the rest of us, cozening agents and trying to get onto books earlier and wondering how much money to bid." Adds Georges Borchardt, an agent whose clients include John Gardner, Stanley Elkin and Kate Millett: "The facilities offered by publishers to the artists have declined. Editors who would be capable of editing are not allowed to. They have people breathing down their backs, asking, 'Where is the new bestseller...
...JEAN BORCHARDT University of Illinois Champaign...
...that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after Brother Tom referred to her during a church service as "the meanest woman in Oakland...
Tricks of the Trade. In Detroit, Patrolman Edward F. Borchardt, ace police retriever of stolen automobiles, was arrested for stealing an automobile...
...years one of the loveliest flowers of ancient Egyptian art bloomed unseen in the gloom of a Tell el-Amarna tomb. There, in 1912, German Archeologist Ludwig Borchardt unearthed the gracile head of Queen Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come"), and quietly shipped it to Germany. In vain the Egyptian Government demanded its return. Nefertete stayed in the Berlin Neues Museum, and her swanlike beauty (in cheap reproductions) became world renowned...