Word: digestible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...
...Principally affected: Reader's Digest, TIME, Parents' Magazine, Woman's Day, Better Living, Family Circle, several trade magazines, and Newsweek, which was considering a Canadian edition...
Confidential, whose 3,674,423 circulation now makes it the top single-copy newsstand seller in the U.S., has been attracting libel suits along with circulation. Last week Publisher Robert Harrison's bimonthly dirt digest admitted making its first payment for libel: a $9,000 out-of-court settlement to Lyle Stuart, editor of Expose (circ. 20,000), a muckraking monthly tabloid...
...leave to write on Alexander Pope and edit a volume on translation for the Comparative Literature Department. He also hopes to include a trip to Greece, Italy, and Cambridge, England. "Above all I want time to read, write, and think," he said. "I need some time to digest the many new impressions I have been receiving in swift succession since moving into the Harvard community and Adams House...
...first novel, and shelved the second in disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...