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Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, who died in Boston in 1964, willed that her body be given to either Dartmouth or Harvard medical schools. But Massachusetts law required the consent of the next of kin for any such donation. Grace's family said no, and the bequest was not...
19. RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious. 1959 4,400,000
1. PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious. 1956 9,919,785
Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled $1,500 on it in 1950.
But it is lust that wins the viewers' closest attention. Once the radio soap operas seemed as spotless as if they had been scrubbed down by the sponsor's product; now the TV actors seem to need their mouths washed out with it. The girl who wondered if...