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...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk's fine novel of the Navy's war in the Pacific, has turned out to be the hardiest fiction bestseller since Lloyd Douglas' The Robe (1942). The Douglas novel stayed on the Publisher's Weekly list of five top fiction sellers for 32 months. Caine is now in its 17th month. It's sales to date: 325,000 copies (The Robe sold nearly...
Second Year--Phillip Areeda, Peter Bator, Frank K. Berlew, Derek C. Bok, Samuel C. Butler, Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, Jesse W. Doolittle, Jr., Norman Gold, Allen Greenberg, John Kaplan, Andrew L. Kaufman, Joel Kozol, Stuart J. Land, Donald I. Laventhall, Keinard M. Leiman, Arnold Lozowick, Richard M. Markus, Richard P. McGrath, Bruce Nichols, William Nickols, John T. Noonan, William D. Parsley, Judson A. Parsons, Jr., Arnold I. Roth, Peter H. Schiff and Edward C. Stebbins...
Monopoly. In Milwaukee,. Stripteaser Patricia McQuillan, whose bust, she says, is insured for $50,000 with Lloyd's of London, filed a $25,000 damage suit against a theater operator for "trademark infringement and unfair competition," charging he advertised other dancers under her slogan: "$50,000 Treasure Chest...
Wayne University's Professor (of English) Donald J. Lloyd has long believed that Americans are too busy thinking about their grammar to learn how to write. They are possessed of a demon, "a mania for correctness," writes Professor Lloyd in the current issue of the American Scholar. "Our spelling must be 'correct'-even if the words are ill-chosen; our 'usage' must be 'correct'-even though any possible substitute expression, however crude, would be perfectly clear; our punctuation must be 'correct'-even though practices surge and change with the passing...
Professor Lloyd finds no such repressions hampering American speech. "The ordinary American is in conversation a confident, competent expressive being . . . But with the negative attitude that attends all our writing, those whose main interest lies elsewhere are inhibited . . . until the sight of a blank white page gives them the shakes . . . Not until we come to our senses-teachers, editors, writers and readers together-and stop riding each other's backs, will the casual, brisk, colorful, amused, ironic and entertaining talk of Americans find its way into print...