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DANGEROUS ANGEL (250 pp.)-Clarence Budington Kelland-Harper...
Clarence Budington Kelland, 72, is a prominent U.S. author to whom U.S. literary and critical magazines pay no attention whatever. He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial." The good always wins, the boy always gets the girl, and they are married in a nice church ceremony-just after getting the deed to a nice piece of real estate-while a kindly old homespun philosopher stands snapping his galluses in the background...
Mornings Only. Despite critical frowns, this vigorous brand of optimism has held the affections of three generations of U.S. readers, and netted Author Kelland a fortune. Since his first book in 1913, he has written 38 others, some of them, such as Valley of the Sun (355,000 copies) and Sugarfoot (414,000 copies') runaway bestsellers. Others have made hit movies, e.g., Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. His most famous character, Scattergood Baines, has been the subject of five movies and a durable radio soap opera...
Before they make their way into hard covers, Kelland's stories are tried and tested in the lucrative crucible of the slick-paper magazines, notably the Satevepost. A man who seldom has to raise his head from the typewriter once he begins a story, Kelland can count on a steady out put of 10,000 words a week, working mornings only. This is enough to give the Post one installment of a serial and to give Kelland, at going rates, some $2,000. That leaves the rest of the day for golf, conversation and politics (since 1940, Author Kelland...
...Arizona, Taft men wanted the state delegation committed to the unit rule, and the Eisenhower forces rebelled. When the argument tied the state convention in parliamentary knots, Pro-Taft Author Clarence Budington Kelland, national committeeman, seized the microphone and roared: "This convention is approaching a point of absurdity. It is a completely ridiculous mess. I move to get out of this mess that we adjourn." Finally, the convention abandoned the unit rule, did about what it was expected to: ten delegates for Taft, two for Eisenhower, two uncommitted...