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WITHOUT MAGNOLIAS (274 pp.)-Buck-I'm Moon-Doubleday...
Moon has the essential gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...
...Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...Teapot. Book publishers said such a bureau would not work, but many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
After General Eisenhower turned his manuscript over to Doubleday & Co., 20th-Century-Fox bought from the publishers the television rights to Crusade In Europe, asked the MARCH OF TIME to film it, and leased the film series to the American Broadcasting Co., which will telecast...