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...copies" [TIME, Aug. 30]. This properly represents the sales of one reprint publisher. The number of copies of Mr. Caldwell's books in print, at home and abroad, including not only quarter books but dollar books and 75? books as well, is at present slightly more than 14 million...
MOVIE THEATERS, announced the newly established Television Research Institute, will be practically empty by 1955, and there will be 24 million TV sets in U.S. homes. But TV will need "three to four times the total annual output of the U.S. film industry." Who is to pay for this increased output? "The simple truth is that either pictures must be made more cheaply or a method must be found for the public to foot the bill...
Francis Henry Taylor presides over one of the world's biggest & best art collections. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which he directs, bulges with a round half-million treasures. But the men who bought and sold them down the centuries, Taylor thinks, are almost as interesting as the works themselves. For twelve years he has been working in his spare time on a history of art-collecting from King Tut to Napoleon-the only work of its kind in English...
...month), and drumming up new business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...
Since it first started selling books to U.S. nurseries, New York's Simon & Schuster, Inc. has learned to respect their buying power. In six years S. & S. sold some 75 million children's Golden Books (they come in four different sizes, sell from 25? up), made them the mainstay of its business...