Word: book-of-the-month
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Until the Book-of-the-Month Club chose Blessed Are the Meek, Mme. Kossak was unknown in the U.S., though famed in Poland for her historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...
...vice president of Freedom House; Justice Ferdinand Pecora; President George N. Shuster, of Hunter College; President Harry D, Gideonse of Brooklyn College; Raymond Leslie Buell, former president of the Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...
...caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo, and finally handed over to the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, Nazi spy and hairdresser extraordinary on the S.S. Enropa. Author Shibers crime: helping to smuggle British soldiers out of Occupied France. Paris-Underground* a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for October, is Mrs. Shiber's exciting story of how she did it. The book is avowedly and completely ghostwritten. Names and places have been changed and shuffled to confuse the Gestapo. Mrs. Shiber valiantly insists that otherwise it all happened that way. But some...
Random House printed 100,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club took the book for August, printed 340,000 copies more. All told, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is expected to earn for its authors around a quarter of a million dollars...
...gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...