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Word: amber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first traffic lights last month. Now that it has nine on the main streets, the capital's 207 taxi drivers have pretty well got the hang of the gadgets, and pedestrians have stopped bellowing from the sidewalks the meaning of red, green and amber. Most Managua citizens agree that the lights are modern and efficient, and that they really have not slowed traffic down very much. One unexpected hitch did develop: oxcarts, starting from scratch on a green light, could just barely cross the street before the signal turned red again. Readjusting the lights would have been a tricky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Stop & Go | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...make a lot [of money] while you're young," says the heroine of Kathleen Winsor's second novel. "One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it." To make a lot of money while she was young, Kathleen wrote a novel called Forever Amber. It sold more than 1,750,000 copies and entertained or cheated more readers than almost any novel about a predatory female since Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Kathleen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined. So did another big publishing house. Kathleen finally talked Ap-pleton-Century-Crofts into forking over the huge advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Kathleen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Sales. Despite the caution of the first two publishers, Novelist Winsor has almost certainly produced another bestseller; not an avalanche like Amber, but a book that is likely to start a right jolly little bookslide. She has done it, as before, by main shrewdness, by the use of a prose so obvious that it can (and almost has to) be read under a hair-dryer, and by a skill in mixing the formula for bestselling pap that should keep her customers cooing for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Kathleen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...base of the Winsor formula is still a viscous glob of sex. In Amber, it was diluted in a little English history. In Star Money, it is stirred into the well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Kathleen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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