Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public and the public domain, combining sex with the classics, self-improvement with sex-all mailed in plain wrappers. Over 40 years, Little Blue Book editions of 29 Shakespearean plays sold 5,500,000 copies-but one sex-instruction pamphlet alone, What Married Women Should Know* produced a total sale...
Miller's yarn, first published as a highly effective short story, follows three Western drifters in their pursuit of wild horses as they force the mustangs out of mountain passes by terrifying them with a low-swooping airplane, eventually trap them for sale as dog meat. Two of the "mustangers" refer to a vaguely mutual mistress named Roslyn. In the movie version, Roslyn has moved to the center and become, by the author's admission, a closely personal portrait of his wife...
...headed by Brothers Percy and Harold Uris. New York's biggest builders, the Urises have studded the city with wedding-cake office buildings, shaped to fit tightly inside the New York building code "envelope" and provide a maximum of space and a minimum of aesthetics. Zeckendorf's sale price for the lease: $4,500,000. Uris brothers thought they had a good deal, since so much had already been spent in foundation work on the site. Whether Zeckendorf made or lost money and how much was open to question. Even allowing for his rents, digging costs, and other...
Although only a few copies of Stephen Sandy's Caroms are on public sale, and although the work will doubtless be totally ignored by most summer people, it would not be fitting if a publication of such interest to certain Cambridge readers were to pass entirely without mention...
...even skeptical librarians agree, say the pollsters, that reading is rising among the young. One reason is the growing sale of attractive children's books. And contrary to gloomy predictions, TV encourages more reading. Margaret C. Scoggin, coordinator of Young Adult Services for New York public libraries, says that "any story which appears on TV immediately creates a demand for the book in the libraries." She thinks that the paperback boom also boosts library circulation: "The more a student reads, the more he wants to read, the more he buys, and the more he borrows." For more and more...