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...believed in you when we were younger, Harvard, and we inwardly drew back as we were pushed into the traffic of the world. But we had to go: and perhaps one of the questions you had taught us to ask we secretly wanted to ask you, the very fountainhead. You had told us that to understand knowledge would show us The Way more certainly than a flash of faith: but wasn't it faith that drew us to you? Your science had justified to us the conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow...
Some old best-sellers still hung on-notably Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe; Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber; Samuel Shellabarger's Captain from Castile; Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Conspicuously missing from the lists at year's end were war novels of this and previous years, though Peter Bowman's Beach Red (TIME, Dec. 10) was the Book-of-the-Month Club's December choice...
...August best-seller lists were packed with tried-&-true favorites that had been published one, two, even three years ago. Still prominent in popular fiction lists were trusty epics (1942's The Robe; 1943's The Fountainhead); cloak-&-dagger tales set in more glamorous periods of history (Captain from Castile, Commodore Hornblower); fleshly garlands of love ("Oh!" sighed a harassed Manhattan bookdealer, "how tired I am of young girls whispering that they want Forever Amber...
News from the city of Florence itself was more doubtful. It was uncertain whether the fountainhead of the Renaissance was still lifting all its loveliest jets toward the sky-Giotto's tinted and delicate campanile; Brunelleschi's great cathedral dome which, looming above the huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo...
...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...