Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Frederic Wakeman, who satirized radio in The Hucksters (TIME, June 3), defends his best-seller before a trio of critics...
...could Britain count on keeping those gains she had made. In the world seller's market, she has been able to sell everything she could produce. But some of her greatest strides have been made in markets which the U.S. had long dominated, notably autos. Even the British expect present exports of 5,600 cars a month (only a dribble of 40 cars came to the U.S. in April) to drop to under 3,500 when Detroit gets into high...
...Victor Kravchenko suddenly quit his job with the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, went into hiding, and began work on the most sensational of all recent books about the Soviet Union. In eight weeks it climbed to fifth on the non-fiction best-seller list. Reader's Digest condensed it; the Hearst papers have run it as a daily serial...
About a thousand copies of Waugh's book, printed in England, were sold in the U.S. a decade ago. Now that Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is a best-seller (558,000 copies), Little, Brown has published Campion for the first time in the U.S. Lending-library ladies will find little in it of the Waugh they recently took to their breasts...
Nancy Mitford has written five novels, but her latest has the qualities of a first-rate first novel. This comedy of aristocratic manners that is a best-seller in England has freshness, spontaneity, characters that seem to have stepped out of the author's life-which is precisely what most of Pursuit's characters have done...