Word: houghton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present editors of Audience have Harvard or Radcliffe affiliations. We have published Harvard undergrads in the past and will do so again. But where are all the good manuscripts? Nothing gladdens old people's hearts (some of us are almost forty) like finding a brilliant new writer.... Firman Houghton '41, Editor...
...ARMADA (443 pp.)-Garreft Mattingly-Houghton, Miffin...
...NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY (428 pp.)-John Kieran - Houghton Mifflin...
PURSUIT OF THE PRODIGAL (292 pp.)-Louis Auchincloss-Houghton Mifflin...
...generation's foremost philosopher of the frontier, and the leading historian (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers) of the American West. At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb is one historian who never lets the evidence stand in the way of the truth...