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...your review of Erskine Caldwell's This Very Earth ... it was stated that sales of Mr. Caldwell's books were "above 9,000,000 copies" [TIME, Aug. 30]. This properly represents the sales of one reprint publisher. The number of copies of Mr. Caldwell's books in print, at home and abroad, including not only quarter books but dollar books and 75? books as well, is at present slightly more than 14 million...
Harper's gets about 1,900 manuscripts a month, and reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...
Last year the funnymen turned out a duplicate of Newsweek. It was the first mimicry accomplishment since the war had sent the Lampoon into "reprint issue" doldrums, forcing curtailment of all parody efforts...
Herewith is a reprint of a TIME story, written by one of our editors and published in our issue of March 5, 1945. I believe it will repay a second reading as the world enters the new year...
This "International Bureau of Computations" would compile and distribute data on the uses and work of mathematical calculators throughout the world, preventing duplication of research and extending the range of work. The Computations made by the machines would be published by the central bureau, and made available for reprint and distribution...