Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets...
...prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover, Gardner's books have sold more than 37 million copies,* are now moving over the counters at the rate of six or seven million copies a year...
...gone from typewriter to electric typewriter to direct dictation and finally to dictating machines. Now he has as many as four secretaries at a time taking the stuff off records, rattles off 6,000 to 7,000 words a day; in a high-speed burst he has hit as much as 235,000 words a month...
Hearth & Home. In Hollywood, Mrs. Catharine Gretchen Lombardo, suing for divorce, charged that her husband spent hours teaching their four-year-old daughter to shoot dice. In Newark, N.J., Mrs. Martha Giles got a divorce after testifying that her husband hit her with a live eel. In St. Louis, Mrs. Brigitte Fitzpatrick, wife of-a psychologist, won her divorce after testifying that her husband kept analyzing her in front of their friends...
...Crimson rallied after playing some of its worst baseball in the first and second innings, when the Lions scored all of their six unearned runs. An error by Cliff Crosby and a hit by Adam Rakowski, who got three of Columbia's five safeties, netted two runs in the first...