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Word: peyton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHAPMAN REPORT, by Irving Wallace (371 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), fills an unfelt need for a peeping tome to set beside Peyton Place. Dr. Chapman is an all but sexless biologist who has extended his studies of the lemur and marmoset to the sex habits of U.S. males and females. With his worshipful male research team, Chapman invades "The Briars," an upper middle-class Los Angeles suburb, to do interviews for A Sex History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Pique over Peyton Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Grace Metalious' blast at me over Return to Peyton Place reported in the Dec. 21 TIME: it is to laugh. I am no Svengali and she's no Trilby. I did not guide her hands across her golden typewriter. And when it comes to riding the gravy train, I'm in the caboose. I have yet to make the picture, which will cost several million dollars. It is a gamble as to if it makes money or not as are all pictures these days. She has her gravy and can eat it already. The paperback rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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