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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeful Boettigers continued to believe that Hearst would welcome them back and would let Boettiger continue to operate an unHearstian Hearst paper. The Boettigers even tried several times to buy the PI. Last week in Seattle, Lieut. Colonel John Boettiger, about to go on the Army's inactive list, learned what everyone else had known all along, and got out. Said he: "We greatly enjoyed the experience...
...list of cumulative bestsellers over the years from 1880 to the present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove...
...index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen Wister (Lady Baltimore), and Robert W. Chambers (The Fighting Chance...
...that set the avalanche in motion. Linen dusters fluttered along U.S. highways in 1905, and in their back draft C.N. and A.M. Williamson, specialists in vapid romances of the open road, whose heroines invariably fell for their chauffeurs (all princes in disguise), were swept on to the best-seller list with their The Princess Passes. In 1923 a slim volume with a top-heavy title, Self-Mastery through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, had Americans everywhere murmuring, "Every day in every way, I am getting better and better...
...Wells's novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through, which described the effect of two years of war on a literary Briton who lost his son. Robert W. Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man became one of the rare volumes of poetry to make the list. Mary Green's cookbook, Better Meals for Less Money, designed for shortage-harried housewives, brought Author Green considerably more money. But by the end of 1918 the U.S. public had tired of both war and "hooverizing" and was hungrily gulping the cactus and sage-scented paragraphs of Zane Grey...