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Last week demands for free copies were still flooding into Doubleday. Only four of the books had qualified as bestsellers by the appointed time: Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters...
...cleanly that Basilio's knees seemed almost to come unhinged. Robby looked as exhausted as his opponent when the fight ended, but the man who comes back had come back again, and he had done it with authority. "Daddy is the greatest," exulted Ray's lovely wife Edna Mae. "Nobody ever beats Daddy twice...
...PALACE (411 pp.)-Edna Ferber-Doubleday...
...Edna Ferber is still not over the bestseller habit, even though her books relentlessly suggest that bestsellers do not make the best reading. She has, as a critic once said of Edmund Wilson, "pencil, pad and purpose." Six years ago Novelist Ferber worked up some travel notes and impressions into Giant (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952), a novel about Texas that was as close to the mark as a tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna...
Time Exposure. In Nottingham, England, Mrs. Edna May Bracewell won a divorce after testifying that in 13 years of marriage the only present her husband ever gave her was a watch, and that he took it back before she left...