Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published through November of this year, fewer than half will make a profit, i.e., sell 5,000 copies or more in bookstores. This year's fiction bestseller, Morton Thompson's Not As a Stranger, has sold slightly more than 175,000 copies (in comparison, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit sold 450,000 copies in 1944; Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World sold an advertised 750,000 copies in two months in 1914). This year, probably no more than 25 novels sold 50,000 copies, which means that about 25 fiction writers earned...
...Rabbit. At first, each cartoon took eight people one month to make, and sold for only $750, "with the result," says Walt, "that there was many a week when Roy and I ate one square meal a day-between us." In July 1925 Walt married a girl named Lillian Bounds, who worked in his office; they now have two grown daughters...
...TOMORROW, by Lillian Roth, joined the long list of confessional books by alcoholics who have been saved. Unabashedly frank and loaded with sordid details, Nightclub Entertainer Roth's tell-all became one of the year's top bestsellers...
...during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying that he is a comedian. On Omnibus, Composer Leonard Bernstein analysed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and showed, with orchestral help...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Lillian Gish and Robert Q. Lewis...