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...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...
Poet William Rose Benét and Authoress Marcia Davenport said they had read the novel in galley proofs, and denounced the "political" campaign. In no time at all the Communist drive to suppress The Fifth Seal had turned into a fine publicity boom...
...Manhattan, ruddy, quiet, cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...book was selling at the rate of 50,000 copies a day. . It was being produced from four sets of plates and at two binderies. Rights were already sold for British, Swedish and Spanish editions. Bound galley proofs had been auctioned for $100,000 worth of war bonds to Mr. Julius Klorfein, who also bought Jack Benny's violin for $1,000,000 in bonds (TIME, March 8). Rival publishers grudgingly guessed that the book might sell 5,000,000 copies. (Record-breaker G.W.T.W. sold 3,000,000.) Simon and Schuster feared paper problems after the first...
...Commune made her run, smashed into the ice, ground and grated to a sudden stop. Her men rubbed their aching necks, fought to keep their balance. In the galley, chicken soup spattered out of a kettle. On the bridge, Captain Joe brooded: "This just ain't steamboating weather. I ain't seen a bird...