Word: book-of-the-month
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...ending in a burst of good, old-fashioned bathos. Novelist Sharp, who usually manages to be witty, or at least catty, can offer here only a few naughty four-letter words, moments of much-diluted O. Henry irony, and philosophizing of the Edna Ferber school. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made Britannia Mews its July selection, and 20th Century-Fox has paid $200,000 for the privilege of filming...
...last week puttering George Stimpson, who never learned how to make his wealth of contacts pay off in fame, was knee-deep in good luck. His factmongering had hit the jackpot: the Book-of-the-Month Club had picked up his Book about a Thousand Things (Harper; $3.50), a random selection snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered...
...Hucksters is Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June, and M-G-M has paid $200,000 for a seven-year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that...
...started the Book-of-the-Month Club to tap this mass market. He rediscovered the ever-new old fact that Americans like to have culture sold to them. He set up a board of five cultural experts, to choose a book a month for B.O.M.C. members. B.O.M.C. now has 900,000 members; they usually pay the regular retail price for books, but get a book free with every two bought, and one for joining. President Scherman can afford the dividend...
Down the Drain. The mood of Erich Maria Remarque's new novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...