Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor Zhivago has sold more hardcover editions in the United States than any other book since Peyton Place. It was the most popular literary Christmas present of the 1958 holiday season. The proportion of pages read to books bought must be more lopsided than that of the Gideon Bible. And one of the biggest reasons for the disparity is reader fatigue; the busy man must choose between the book itself and the welter of commentary...
...paid 16 million more. Rayon, as fidgety a hero-villain as fiction has ever provided, went home to Antibes, was back in Paris three days later to tell his story to his lawyer, who had him sign a declaration. The lawyer gave it to Examining Magistrate Jacques Batigne, who read it, reflected, and then apparently filed it in his desk drawer, where it lay for a year...
...what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when the ruckus started...
DeMille's father, a playwright, was an Episcopal lay reader. Every evening he read two chapters from the Bible aloud to his two boys. "The people in the Bible weren't characters in a book," said C.B. later. "They were real individual entities to me. Mighty warriors like Joshua were my heroes...
Newspapermen like to complain that in reporting the news, radio and television newsmen simply buy early editions of every paper in town and read the stories on the air. But there is a pencil behind the other ear. Television shows are creating more and more newspaper headlines...