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...Down. The fellow who had the most fun was the winner, pint-sized (5 ft. 31 in., 135 Ibs.) August Nigl, a 33-year-old sheet metal worker of Oceanside, N.Y. Out of his savings, he had put up $400 for his black and yellow hull, Forever Amber. His Evinrude 50 h.p. engine cost another $650. His spare time all year was spent tinkering with his engine, polishing the hull, working in endless tryouts...
...April 17 TIME says: "Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen [Winsor] asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined...
...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...
...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...
...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...