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...eight years he has produced eight historical novels which have sold 8,000,000 copies in hard covers alone (The Saracen Blade, The Vixens, The Golden Hawk, etc.). Doubleday's Dollar Book Club (nearly 750,000 members) has picked seven of the eight, and the Literary Guild has often used Yerby's novels as "gift books" to attract new members...
...airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights of 100,000 to 125,000 ft. Man (Major Arthur Murray) has already flown up to 90,000 ft. and at 2½ times the speed of sound. Rockets have gone up 250 miles at speeds...
...runner-up, Fair-Dealing former Governor Sid McMath, 41, ran out of campaign funds; to pay for a final ad, his staff had to pass the hat around. McClellan's ally, Governor Francis Cherry, failed to win a majority. In the runoff he faces a McMath crony: hawk-nosed Orval Faubus, 43, former state-highway director, a self-educated, match-chewing mountaineer...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified manhood, he became one of the most respected members of the local government...