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...religious tales of Fulton Oursler might have been popular with children a generation or two ago. It is a commentary on the times that his latest volume, a breezy popularization of the Old Testament entitled The Greatest Book Ever Written (Doubleday; $3.95) will probably be a hit with grownups...
...Author Oursler, 58, a Reader's Digest editor and onetime newspaperman, knows from experience what people want to hear about, and how they want to hear it. His rewrite of the New Testament, The Greatest Story Ever Told, has sold nearly 1,500,000 copies and is still going strong...
...Velikovsky's book has attracted wide comment and admiration. Harper's Magazine gave it a solemn preview entitled "The Day the Sun Stood Still." Collier's ran a he-man's version called "The Heavens' Burst." In the latest Reader's Digest, Fulton Oursler hailed Velikovsky as the starter of a back-to-the-Bible movement. Connoisseurs of pressagentry will credit Macmillan Co. with skilled use of an up-to-date technique: getting widest publicity for a doubtful article before critics have been allowed...
...News had also been one of the first to spot the growth of religious interest, had serialized Fulton Oursler's Greatest Story Ever Told on Page One (TiME, Oct. 10). Last week Chicagoans were talking about another News series: the inside story of Alcoholics Anonymous, written by staffers who belong...
White Collar Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Carey The Greatest Story Ever Told, Fulton Oursler Peace of Soul, Fulton Sheen