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...with 70,000 outlets through news dealers, last week sold its 100,000,000th Pocket Book, while paying out its first $1,000,000 in royalties. Simon & Schuster Inc. made publishing history one year ago by printing, simultaneously, two versions of Wendell Willkie's One World. The $1 "cigar store" version (1,000,000) outsold the $2 version 4-to-1. This year the $1 edition of Bob Hope's I Never Left Home outsold the $2 book...
...From behind the stilled forms of the factory machinery a score of German officers peered questioningly at him but he gave no sign. There was no motion around him save the wisps of smoke that curled up around his bowed head as he puffed pensively on a fat Manila cigar...
...parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
...Baxter is a five-year-old who has dreamed up a fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley. O'Malley's round figure is no taller than Barnaby's, is equipped with two small wings and a magic wand in the form of a fat cigar. O'Malley is a thoroughgoing Micawber-type fraud who never brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems...
...Darien, Conn, home, Johnson finds the creation of Barnaby six days a week, one month in advance, a painful literary job. He does the drawing easily. Last week Barnaby and O'Malley were deep in the presidential campaign; behind-the-scenes political moves were being masterminded by cigar-waving O'Malley. Said Barnaby to his practical father: "Mr. O'Malley is for Dewey because a lot of generals got to be presidents, but, so far, not any admirals...