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Probably-but among the gifted, where are the truly distinctive voices, let alone the great ones? Fiction writing-and reading-has declined over the years. Last year, $210,000 in fiction prizes went begging for want of suitable entries. "When I entered the business," says Cerf, "fiction outsold nonfiction five to one. Today the situation is exactly reversed...
Chevy Division Manager Elliott ("Pete") Estes has fallen behind his competitor (and Bloomfield Hills neigh bor) Don Frey, whose Ford Division in October outsold Chevrolet 194,000 cars to 192,000. None of the regular "lower-priced three" cars are burning up the track, but racier, higher-priced models are doing splendidly, and auto economists point out that "the sales mix is very rich...
...films, among them Séance on a Wet Afternoon, King Rat, The Knack and The Ipcress File. The LP version of Thunderball, released only a few weeks ago, is already high on the bestseller charts, following briskly on the heels of Barry's Goldfinger, which last year outsold all rock-'n'-roll albums except the Beatles...
...even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps I'm just ridiculously sensitive." He believes that "comic-strip artists have a responsibility to be uplifting and decent. This is not difficult. My book, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, is completely innocent; yet in 1963 it outsold every other book, despite the waves of smut sweeping the country...
...Single Girl has outsold all its sister sex books because it talks hip. "It's not a study on how to get married," says Helen Brown, who married at a ripe 37, "but how to stay single in superlative style. How much safer to marry with the play out of his system and yours. It takes guts." Such words are calculated to allay the anxieties of the 14 million single women in the U.S., most of whom are perpetually nagged to get married...