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Kathleen Winsor's "Forever Amber" ("Banned in Boston, but in this case, that didn't guarantee merit...
Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 28, cinemactress (Forever Amber): Cameraman Peverell Marley, 49; after seven years of marriage, seven months of separation, one adopted child; in Los Angeles...
...sure they know what readers want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...
...number of things. There are the red cells, which contain oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and are used in transfusions for anemia.There are white cells, which rush to defend the system against bacterial invasion. There are the little-understood platelets, which help in clotting. Besides these solids, there is the amber fluid (plasma), which contains a score or more different components, some already being used in medicine, others still in the research stage. To separate these various fractions, preserve them and make them available for medical use is a vastly complex process...
...said, "I don't want [the book] to be a sort of amber in color-you know, Forever Amber-I want to say something pleasant about people and if I can't, I just want to leave them out. Naturally, I'll talk about my mother, who died when I was twelve. It was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn sort of thing. It has lots of other highlights: it'll take in the trial-you know, this Daisy [De Boe] trial. Well, she was my secretary and she blackmailed...