Word: book-of-the-month
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...last week he had become both famous and wealthy. His drawings had already earned him $25,000, now bring him upwards of $200 a week. They are sold to 138 newspapers. Henry Holt & Co. paid him $5,000 advance on Up Front (it is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice) and Ladies' Home Journal paid him $10,000 for the rights to publish Ladies'-Home-Journalized. excerpts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 1944's best cartoon. In Italy last week, at a ceremony crowded with brass hats, Bill Mauldin was presented with the Legion...
...months ago, the show got its first backer, the Book-of-the-Month Club.' A second break came when an organization called the Keystone Broadcasting System, which supplies its 214 scattered member-stations with recordings, took on the program as an educational sustainer...
...confident that its crossroads listeners-in Anchorage, Alaska, Alamosa, Colo., Hickory, N.C., Siloam Springs, Ark.-will eat up Author Critics, whose past guest-victims have ranged from James Thurber to Lucius Beebe, Emily Hahn to Ilka Chase. KBS is doubly confident because the Book-of-the-Month is offering book prizes for the best letters from listeners. Said a small-town-wise KBS official: "Whenever you give them a prize, they're happy...
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Helen now runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa. George was shingling the roof of their nearby farmhouse when Helen heard that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken Anything Can Happen as one of its January choices. (Selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club usually means at least $30,000 for the author.) Helen was afraid to tell him, fearing he would fall off the roof. When they told an immigrant friend that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken the book: "Don't worry," said the friend, "it's not worth...