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...Charleston, S. C., William Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse sold like tickets to a cockfight. This noted Sigma Chi from the Pittsburgh chapter had previously left a mark at Porter Military Academy and Charleston high. There he made life easier for students by holding that "It's me" is grammatically correct. Just back from being wounded in a tough war, he also used to throw chalk at the sleepy learners in his classes...
...huge, grinning, wise-cracking native of Pittsburgh, Hervey Allen made two tentative starts in life. He was at Annapolis before overindulgence in athletics made him unfit for the sea. Graduating from Pittsburgh with honors in 1915, he went to work for a telephone company. He entered the Big Conflict as soon as there was Maxican border trouble...
TIME'S book reviewer should review his arithmetic. After mentioning [TIME, March 7] that Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse contains 1,224 pages, TIME'S critic states that writing at the rate of two pages a day it took Author Allen five years to complete his masterpiece...
...first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...
...spring book season got under way, Commander Ellsberg's Hell on Ice climbed into the best-seller class at Macy's, looked like a sure bet for nationwide lists next month, along with Hervey Allen's Action at Aqnila. Last month's published best-seller lists boiled down to these headliners...