Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Caroline is the whimsical, affectionate brainchild of Gerald Gardner, 34, the former Manhattan adman who soared to publishing success of sorts last year with his bestselling, cartoon-like picture paperback Who's In Charge Here? Teaming up with Artist Frank Johnson, 32, Gardner began tinkering with the Miss Caroline cartoon idea last autumn, gave it a trial run with a 128-page paperback of single cartoon panels, which has sold 250,000 copies since it was published last January, and then showed samples to newspapers...
...rapid changes of modern life constantly faco people with new situations, forcing them to expand their knowledge. A symptom of today's intellectual expansion, he said, is the increasingly high quality of paperback books now sold in supermarkets and drug stores as well as bookstores...
Classicist Hadas spoke to Negro high school teachers in the first of 18 telelectures on "Great Ideas in Antiquity," a credit course that uses a paperback library of classical drama (cost: $5.70). Mississippi's Jackson State College suggested the theme; the Fund for the Advancement of Education will spend $10,000 for the series. At Louisiana's Southern University, students prepped for a month and took a one-hour exam before Hadas even opened his mouth. Hadas considers the idea not as good as "a flesh-and-blood teacher, even a bad one." But since even...
...George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson gratuitously: "If Ward's statement had been published as a fiction paperback in America, it would have seemed overdrawn and beyond belief...
...superior, Thomas Galbraith, who had written the clerk some letters starting "My dear Vassall." Galbraith was later wholly exonerated. * Though possibly not in Britain, where Tropic of Cancer has been a bestseller for months and the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has sold 3,500,000 paperback copies...