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Producer Wald (20th Century-Fox) is running up new box-office records with Peyton Place, has a dozen other books (from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) either almost in the can or getting ready for the cameras. When there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Book Buyer | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

The principal message of this first novel by 26-year-old Radcliffe Graduate Rona Jaffe: heaven no longer protects the working girl, and the corner drugstore is not always successful either. Author Jaffe's working girls are all the sad young women who splash to Manhattan like tender young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

It would have been too much to ask that Author Jaffe produce a second Sister Carrie-it would also have been too much Sister Carrie-and probably will do no lasting harm that what she has written instead is a naughtied-up Little Women. The girls work in a publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

New York-born author worked in one too). There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar. He refuses to marry her, but-Author Jaffe admits New York men are not wholly vile-he recognizes that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Without noticeable softness, Miss Jaffe's publisher says that her novel's movie rights were sold for $100,000 before publication-almost as much as the haul made by Peyton Place. Merry Christmas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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