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Other lists, compiled from booksellers' reports of the most widely-selling titles without sales figures, do not show the relative popularity of fiction and nonfiction. 2) Most best-seller lists are limited to current novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included in TIME's list. Last month in the book department of San Francisco's Emporium, Ferdinand sold five times as many copies as The Yearling, although its total national sales are not equal to those of the ten national best-sellers...
...Depression II may be linked to the current sunspot downgrade. But no temporary outburst of sunspots was reported to accompany last week's ebullient stockmarket...
...Current and Choice
Effusive endorsements of soaps and cigarettes by cinema stars and society leaders have always had more glamor than reliability. This week, however, it appeared that the U. S. consumer was going to get more authentic recommendation in one field. In the current issue of Staff, "The official and only magazine of the Butlers Club, Inc., for the better household staffs of homes, estates, yachts," appeared the announcement that the Butlers Club will make kitchen tests of foods and drinks which, if approved, will be awarded a decorative seal: "Used and Approved by the Executive Committee of the Butlers Club...
...cash resources, insurance companies habitually buy entire issues. Investment bankers estimate the total of such purchases as high as $1,500,000,000 a year. SEC Chairman William O. Douglas last week commented that this gave "insurance companies a preferred status over other investors." As a part of the current Monopoly Investigation, SEC will study the subject...