Word: allene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 145 pound bout Arthur B. Allen '41 outpointed Gerhardt G. Thiem '41. In the same class, Francis E. Silva, Jr., '41 was awarded a close decision over Roger E. Lindsay '41; Henry M. Robinson '41 took another close one from Donald G. Scorgie '41; and Henry W. Kelley '40 scored a technical knockout over Warren S. Wilkinson '41 in the first round...
ACTION AT AQUILA-Hervey Allen-Farrar & Rinehart...
...that dark season of the book trade, when a novel that sold 5,000 copies could get on best-seller lists, Anthony Adverse became "the fastest selling book in American history," with sales reaching 235.000 copies in six months, 450,000 in one year. Author Hervey Allen bought a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with part of his proceeds, started work on a historical novel about upstate New York, got 50,000 letters about his big romance. Anthony Adverse, still going strong, has been translated into ten languages, sold to the movies, with its sales reaching a high...
...with advance orders of 76,000, average daily sales of 3,700, Gone With The Wind had sold its first million copies inside a year, 1,400,000 in its first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot...
...spring book season got under way, Commander Ellsberg's Hell on Ice climbed into the best-seller class at Macy's, looked like a sure bet for nationwide lists next month, along with Hervey Allen's Action at Aqnila. Last month's published best-seller lists boiled down to these headliners...