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...religious tales of Fulton Oursler might have been popular with children a generation or two ago. It is a commentary on the times that his latest volume, a breezy popularization of the Old Testament entitled The Greatest Book Ever Written (Doubleday; $3.95) will probably be a hit with grownups...
...YOUNG VISITERS (92 pp.)-Daisy Ashford-Doubleday...
...PRESIDENT'S LADY (338 pp.)-Irving Stone-Doubleday...
...MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS (220 pp.)-Max Shulman-Doubleday...
...booklet Wings, under Editor in Chief Carl Van Doren. For a while, the Guild tried to find books that "will be permanently important." It chose the work of such writers as Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild nod (two in 1950, none in 1951). But the shining literary promise of the founders...