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...best books of the year found the large public they deserved. As 1951 drew to a close, Rachel Carson's triumph of popular science, The Sea Around Us, headed the nonfiction bestsellers, and Herman Wouk's clear-eyed novel about the war at sea, The Caine Mutiny, topped the fiction list. But the biggest single phenomenon was the success of the paperbound reprints. With about 100,000 drugstores, newsstands and bookstores displaying them, the paper-bounds sold the staggering total of 231 million copies-or about two for every man, woman & child in the U.S. over...
...Bruins have a couple of tough linebackers: two-way center Ed Sexto and Jack Carson. The latter broke his jaw earlier this season, so must wear. Martian-like protective mask which completely covers the bottom half of his face...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Carson...
Beaver Boy. The new plant will help Baker to close the gap in his 26-year race to overtake Sewell Avery's giant U.S. Gypsum Co. In that race, Baker has already turned in a spring-legged performance. He quit Tennessee's small Carson-Newman Baptist college after two years, later started selling once-famed "Beaverboard" in the South for the old Beaver Co., rose to sales manager...
Noting that Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson had agreed to do the commentary for the Toscanini-NBC Symphony recording of Debussy's La Mer, which will be released this fall, the New York Times's Book Columnist David Dempsey concluded: "This opens up practically unlimited possibilities for authors who would like to do a little music commentating oji the side. Hemingway could take Carmen; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flying Dutchman; Lin Yutang, Chopsticks...