Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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14 Hours is a tense melodrama at the Astor, Times Square, about a man on the edge of a tall building wondering when to jump. The Capitol, Broadway and 51st presents a new Rudyard Kipling all-star epic, Soldiers Three, with Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, and Robert Newton...
Though they are a vanishing breed, there are still those around here who pitch pennies in the spring, walk through puddles instead of around them, and go to film adaptations of Rudyard Kipling. They will enjoy "Kim" tremendously.
The movie keeps fairly close to Kipling's original plot. Kim is the orphaned son of a British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh...
If (Perry Como; Victor, 45 r.p.m.). Como gives his usual relaxed treatment to a climbing new ballad (no kin to Kipling's If) that sounds a little like the old wedding favorite, Because.
"There has been two outstanding bestsellers in my 25 years slum bookselling. They are [Rider Haggard's] King Solomon's Mines and [Marie Corelli's] The Sorrows of Satan . . . The bestselling poetry is still Browning and [Rupert] Brooke . . . My worst sellers are cookery books. My bestselling author...