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...though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar to a total of 45,000 feet. The mushroom top was even more alive than the pillar, sizzling...
...trusty epics (1942's The Robe; 1943's The Fountainhead); cloak-&-dagger tales set in more glamorous periods of history (Captain from Castile, Commodore Hornblower); fleshly garlands of love ("Oh!" sighed a harassed Manhattan bookdealer, "how tired I am of young girls whispering that they want Forever Amber...
From out these amber-colored doings we do find much unneeded sympathy for our newly-weds, "Shakey" and Mrs. Michels, H. "Bruin" Sheller and frau, and "Elongated Abe" and his wife Zaleznick. "The cob" (quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...
...evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame: he is also the husband of Kathleen Winsor, author of the sex-best-seller Forever Amber...
...recent years the backing of big subscription clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club has insured the success of many books. High-pressure promotion campaigns have launched others, including last year's lusty sensation, Forever Amber. An obscure novel called The Honorable Peter Stirling started selling like wildfire in 1897 when rumor identified the chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that...