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More than two hours passed before the first flotsam of disaster bobbed to the ocean surface. Then Coast Guardsmen began fishing out the remains: shreds of metal covered with flesh, a child's mitten, a blue snowsuit, a stewardess' jacket, a woman's mohair coat, a paperback copy of Call It Sleep, and-eventually-the body of a little boy. Part of the cockpit floated up, and when rescuers began to lift it out of the water, the headless body of a crew member flopped out into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Good Night | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Nurse Patterson's idea, to tighten and tone up physiognomies suffering from middle-age sag, is presented in Facial Isometrics. The $1 paperback is illustrated by the faces of a male and a female model who both look as if unspeakable tortures were being performed on their lower extremities. No wonder. The author's instructions urge practitioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty: The Silent Scream | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...Good grief!" cried Candy, "4500 copies in two weeks!" She had just been told of the sales record her biography had established in the Harvard Square area since its release in paperback early in January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Candy' Is Hot Seller | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Eight stores in the Square have been selling from one to four of the recently published paperback editions of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's satirical novel. Candy has been on display for an average of twelve days in each store with an estimated total sale of 4440 copies--one every 17 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Candy' Is Hot Seller | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...book's buyers in all the stores are said to be predominently male. The Paperback Booksmith reported that purchases are most frequent in the late evening hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Candy' Is Hot Seller | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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