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...Jinx Falkenburg's husband. Last week he fixed that one too, by getting Columbia Pictures to release Jinx from her movie contract. (She had to promise to say nothing against Columbia in the two years her contract had to run. "That spiked an article she was doing for Collier's,'" said Tex. "She was going to say she'd graduated from the movies, where she had made straight...
During the war he became one of the world's most widely traveled men, covering some 120,000 miles by plane. His four war books sold 300,000 copies; his war-inspired blank verse, popular but undistinguished, appeared in Collier's and Good Housekeeping. In the past three years his writing brought in $250,000, which went to charities. He became the first archbishop to sell a book to Hollywood, when M-G-M decided to film his wartime parable, The Risen Soldier...
...reprint rights (it now has contracts with "some 40" periodicals), Reader's Digest pays as little as $1,200 a year (to the New Republic), as much as $50,000 (to Crowell-Collier and Curtis Publishing Cos.). Authors who get reprinted are paid $150 per Digest page...
Short obediently resolved to get along. His and Kimmel's relations were cordial-despite a subsequent Collier's article by President (then Senator) Harry Truman, which represented the two as scarcely speaking...
...days after the Japs finally said "Uncle!," Collier's came out with a Quentin Reynolds "authoritative picture" of how hard the invasion of Japan was going to be. In twelve simultaneous newspaper ads Collier's tried to cover its blushes: "The atom bomb, forecast by Collier's five years back, caught Collier's, as well as the Japs, by surprise...