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Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...
Facing the Winter. The truth was that with the arrival of the autumnal equinox no more prolonged periods of good fighting weather could be expected. In Italy there was less talk of "annihilating" the German Army, a sober realization that no magic carpet would take the Allies to the Po River. Now it was a battle of roads. The prospect of at least part of a second winter in Italy was gradually becoming a reality...
...remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with E. M. Forster's A Passage to India...
...Equinox tells the story of Widower Richard Miles, a foreign correspondent who returns to the U.S. to take care of his daughter, Mary, 17. Richard's aging ex-mistress declares that the girl's love for her father and his for her are not innocent. The machinations of an amateur psychiatrist convince Richard and Mary that their love is incestuous. Result: Mary hangs herself, Richard goes back to being a foreign correspondent...
Farsighted publishers of Equinox printed 25,000 copies...