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William Targ (1907-1999) was a successful book editor and well respected in the field of commercial publishing. He is perhaps best known for publishing Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather while editor in chief of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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Targ was 40. She'd always wanted a family. She and Comings made plans to get married, in May 2002, and in March she took a leave from research to begin in vitro fertilization treatments. After the first round of eggs were implanted in her uterus, she began to notice that it was hard for her to pronounce words containing the letter b; one morning, in the mirror, she noticed that the left side of her face had gone slack. The usual line of diagnosis would suspect a stroke - yet she felt fine. She'd never had a physical malady - not even bad eyesight or a single cavity.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Targanta Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: TARG) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $10.00 per share. All of the shares are being offered by Targanta. Targanta has granted to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 862,500 shares of common stock at the initial offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions, to cover over-allotments, if any. Targanta's common stock is scheduled to commence trading on The Nasdaq Global Market on October 10, 2007 under the symbol "TARG."
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Targ says an Associated Press article on the Robeson speech appearing in newspapers throughout the nation caused a furor. In September 1949, following a concert he gave in Peekskill, N.Y., local vigilantes barraged cars leaving the concert with rocks and baseball bats. In 1950, Robeson’s passport was revoked, further stifling his career.
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Outside of the commercial realm, Targ was committed to the art of bookmanship and the ideals of the Private Press. After retiring from Putnam in 1978, he founded Targ Editions, a one-man operation he ran from his home in Greenwich Village. Targ sought to publish works by contemporary writers that had not been previously produced in book form. The twenty-five Targ Editions include works by Henry Roth, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Norman Mailer--each book a unique volume. As Targ wrote for his Targ Editions checklist: "Each of these books is individually designed (no two formats are alike) and they are produced by letter press and are hand-bound. The various printing papers are of high quality, and enduring—mainly of rag, and deckle-edged.
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Although Ms. Targ is firmly persuaded that distant healing works, she confesses that no one has any notion of how a healer and healee can be connected over long distances. She closes the second paper just cited with these words: "The connection could be through the agency of God, consciousness, love, electrons, or a combination. The answers to such questions await future research."
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