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...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk's fine novel of the Navy's war in the Pacific, has turned out to be the hardiest fiction bestseller since Lloyd Douglas' The Robe (1942). The Douglas novel stayed on the Publisher's Weekly list of five top fiction sellers for 32 months. Caine is now in its 17th month. It's sales to date: 325,000 copies (The Robe sold nearly...
Died. Kharloin Choibalsan, 56, Premier Marshal of the (Outer) Mongolian People's Republic, one of the Kremlin's hardiest puppets; of what Moscow insisted were "natural causes" (cancer of the kidney); in the Kremlin, Moscow...
Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and gets sensitive treatment in this British movie...
Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
...their acres to cultivation; most of the yield consists either of dried academic pods or fluttery reviewing that could thrive nearly as well on book jackets. Critic Edmund Wilson's small crop of evaluations (Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow) is the hardiest, the most varied and the one with the best chance of preservation. His new book, Classics and Commercials, is made up entirely of pieces written over the past ten years. No U.S. critic now writing could gather so rich a harvest...