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...even if all the Republican leaders who oppose Goldwater were to gather around Scranton, would they be able to stop Barry's bandwagon? There is deep doubt that they could. "It would take a superhuman effort," says Maine's Fred Scribner, general counsel to the Republican National Committee. Says General Lucius Clay, an authentic Republican kingmaker: "It's late, very late...
...BACKWARD GLANCE by Edith Wharton. 385 pages. Scribner...
...beginning: " 'Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Brown?' said Mrs. Tompkins. 'If only I had known you were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing-room.' " (On which her mother commented: "Drawing-rooms are always tidy.") Soon she was dispatching poems to Scribner's Magazine with her calling card attached, and when she began to be published she learned her first hard truth about old New York society: it had no use for brainy women. "My literary success," she wrote, "puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them...
...Hour Treatments. Nowhere has the artificial kidney received more attention than in Seattle, where Dr. Belding H. Scribner pioneered in adapting the machine to treat patients whose own kidneys have almost completely shut down. These patients excrete such a small volume of urine that it cannot carry a full load of the body's waste chemicals. Without the repeated treatment, they could not live more than two or three weeks. With it, some have lived as long as four years, and they are back at work or running their households...
ERASMUS DARWIN by Desmond King-Hele. 183 pages. Scribner...