Word: book-of-the-month
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...back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers that a U.S. magazine has ever printed a novel complete in one issue before its appearance in book form. In two weeks Scribner's will bring out the 140-page, $3 book, a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for September...
...summer of 1951, Governor Thomas E. Dewey put aside his chores at Albany and flew off on a rugged (41,000 miles, 17 countries), educative tour of the Far Pacific. His book about the trip, Journey to the Far Pacific, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published this week...
This week Chambers published an 808-page book, Witness, Book-of-the-Month for June. Witness, with its 350,000 words, gives a much fuller apologia than the 50,000 words which the Satevepost printed in its recent ten-part serial...
...more pleasant assignments consisted of spending several days in Nassau with John P. Marquand for a cover story (TIME, March 7, 1949). Marquand later told fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges: "I never got such an awful going over" as he received at the hands of Gissen and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens. A later postscript came just a few weeks ago, when Gissen met Marquand, who said: "All the time you were using me I was using you." Marquand, who had drawn on the TIME team for characters in his new book, Melville Goodwin, USA, asked Gissen to convey...
This is the generally sound thesis that Professor T. Harry Williams* of Louisiana State University documents in his Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Lincoln and His Generals. The thesis is not quite as fresh as it must have seemed to the B-o-M judges, nor as urgent as Professor Williams' somewhat hortatory account makes it sound. British Brigadier General Colin R. Ballard spelled it all out a quarter-century' ago in his witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials...