Word: ambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year for hurrying. New York subway guards picked up 7,800 abandoned umbrellas, 54,517 other articles, ranging from roasts of beef to copies of Forever Amber. U.S. airlines carried more passengers and freight, flew more miles than ever before. The railroads broke all records, both for transporting passengers and leaving them behind in stations...
Some old best-sellers still hung on-notably Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe; Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber; Samuel Shellabarger's Captain from Castile; Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Conspicuously missing from the lists at year's end were war novels of this and previous years, though Peter Bowman's Beach Red (TIME, Dec. 10) was the Book-of-the-Month Club's December choice...
...front, since Pearl Harbor, 355,000 had been killed through accident, and 36,000,000 injured. The great songs of season were Till the End of Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names...
...answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, good-looking Nancy Bruff, 29, wife of Manhattan investment broker Edwin Thurston Clarke. Titled The Manatee, it was a tale of the life and loves of a whaler. Immediately Button's sensed another Forever Amber...
...Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...