Word: fortieth
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...Hawaii, Michener (2) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3) 4. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6) 5. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (7) 7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (8) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 10. The Affair, Snow
...View from the Fortieth Floor, White...
...VIEW FROM THE FORTIETH FLOOR (468 pp.)-Theodore H. White-Sloane...
...they were ever hired. The managing editor is a choleric refugee from The Front Page, whose English is baser than basic ("Crapola! Crapola! Crapola!"). As a roman a clef, or key-to-reality-novel, the book unlocks some fairly intriguing trade gossip. But as literature. View from the Fortieth Floor lacks a consistent viewpoint, simply upends a wastebasket of facts and scans the litter like tea leaves of doom...
Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...