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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday Review started out with an observation that any casual reader could make: the lists disagree on many books. Example: in 1948, the Times had The Naked and the Dead in first place for 19 weeks; the Tribune had it there for only ten weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each...
...have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever since." Charlie Ross wasn't trying to censor anybody, the President said; it was just "a measure to make it safe for me to come home...
Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
...careers is an old habit with Sell, who never finished Culver Military Academy but has succeeded at almost everything else he ever tried. He has been glove salesman, reporter, interior decorator, nightclub promoter and vitamin manufacturer. He turned out a slogan ("Have you been taking your vitamins?") that helped make vitamins big business, and wrote a book on home furnishings that sold 100,000 copies. He wears the Legion of Honor for promoting French fashions...
...special treatment. The story also appeared as an eight-column box on Page One in Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. But neither Hearst-paper said anything about what every doctor (and several reporters) realized when they saw the film. The photographed hearts were the hearts of animals. To make the films, Dr. Prinzmetal and fellow researchers at Los Angeles Cedars of Lebanon Hospital had experimented on 65 dogs. Rabid old antivivisectionist Hearst was being kept alive by one of the nation's most eminent vivisectionists...