Word: barney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maurice Girodias, the shy little Parisian who was the world's foremost publisher of English-language pornography until tightening French censorship put his Olympia Press out of business, often talks about setting up shop in the U.S., but it is difficult to see what he could peddle. Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press and in a sense the American Girodias, is way ahead of him. Says Rosset hopefully: "Who knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher...
...strip: the harrowing little frustrations, the countless near-misses. "I guess I'm 100% Charlie Brown. Sixty million people read about the dumb things I did when I was little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model). "He was," says Schulz, "the most intelligent dog there ever was. You could...
Allard K. Lowenstein, a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and Barney Frank '62, assistant senior tutor of Winthrop House, will lead an open meeting on "The Student and His Environment: From Berkeley to Selma" at 9 p.m. tonight in the Tonkens Room of Winthrop House...
Scott will speak at Harvard March 5 under the auspices of the Winthrop House Forum. According to Barney Frank, assistant senior tutor, Scott is coming at the invitation of Winthrop House...
American Tobacco has had a keen taste for just such a company. Earlier last week President Robert Barney Walker announced record American sales ($1.2 billion) and earnings ($73 million). Such income swelled an already bulging cash drawer. At the same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo...