Word: gipson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Book-of-the-Month Club set Cheaper off by picking it as a dual selection (with Fred Gipson's Hound-Dog Man) and distributing 250,000 copies. In five months Publisher Crowell has sold an additional 150,000 copies and reports that customers are still carrying it out of bookstores at the rate of 5,000 copies a week. Twentieth Century-Fox paid out $100,000 for the screen rights...
...Yorkers got an unlikely bouquet from James H. Gipson, peripatetic Idaho publisher: "I cannot recall a single instance of rudeness or bad manners. This is true not only of those in high places . . . but of the policemen, the subway guards, the bus drivers, and the man in the street generally...