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...rejected, spent a year editing and toning down its lurid, sex-studded account of small-town U.S. life, saw the gamble pay off as Grace Metalious' Peyton Place sold over 300,000 copies of her hardback edition and later brought in handsome royalties from 8,000,000 paperback sales; after a long illness; in West Long Branch...
Other elements of the Tougallo-based neo-Harvard Square culture include movies, courtesy of the producers of Ivy Films, weekly concerts by a faculty trio and a dog-eared paperback library which keeps expanding weekly...
...Radcliffe institute for Independent Study has published a paperback book, The Next Step, which describes part-time opportunities for educated women in Greater Boston...
Since then, Capitol, Victor and Vanguard have charged into the market. Capitol dubbed its revivals Paperback Classics ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo). Among the highlights are a rousing Brahms First Symphony with William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony, and a brace of Beethoven piano sonatas, the "Appassionato" and "Waldstein," masterfully played by Pianists John Browning and Rudolf Firkusny respectively...
Under Kansas' anti-obscenity law, the state attorney general was justified in seizing 1,715 such "nightstand books" from a paperback dealer in Junction City. Last month, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the seizure unconstitutional. Also voided were Ohio's ban against an allegedly obscene French movie, The Lovers, and Florida's ban against Henry Miller's scatalogical novel, The Tropic of Cancer. The conflict between the court and the states raised a puzzling question: To what extent are there any more enforceable U.S. laws against obscenity...