Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Drury could afford to play coy with the Times. His first novel, a long (616 pages) and intimate look at the life of Senators and Presidents, is in its eighth printing. So far it has sold 285,000 hardback copies ($5.75 each), plus 2,800,000 in a Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times...
...secretary referred him to Dr. Splint (Vag reflected on how often names sounded like creations from a Fielding novel. It didn't cheer...
...Rack, by A. E. Ellis. The hero of this chilling novel fights to remain alive in a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium...
...novel dramatic reading from the Book of Job, written by two Radcliffe girls, Judith Abrams '60, and Jeanne Rosen '60, will be presented by Hillel House as part of a symposium entitled, "The Five Mirrors...
...doubt that Mark Twain built his reputation in America on the popular conception that he was a very funny man. After his famous "Jumping Frog" story, he was "made." But humor is not the only trade mark of Twain. A genuine and deep bitterness, sometimes strung out in novel-sized (often two volume novel-sized) indictments of the human race, is equally characteristic...