Word: lael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)-Lael Tucker Wertenbaker-Random House...
LAMENT FOR FOUR VIRGINS (368 pp.)-Lael Tucker-Random House...
Novelist Tucker and her publishers should do all right, anyhow. Seven years ago, before leaving for a long stay in Europe, she drew a modest, $250 advance from Random House. Nine months ago, Lael Tucker (wife of Novelist-TIME, Oct. 16, 1950-Charles Christian Wertenbaker) turned in Lament for Four Virgins. After a close look, Random House not only decided to publish it but sold reprint rights, in advance of publication, to Bantam Books for $35,000-a Bantam record for a first novel...