Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor Caldwell, authoress of the current No. 1 fiction best-seller (This Side of Innocence), gave a Manhattan reporter an interview which made her look like Olivia Twist. She was not disciplined as a child, she told the New York Post-she was "brutalized." She nearly went blind for lack of glasses. She was put to work in a bindery at 15, lost most of her hair in a machine, later "made $22 a week in an office job-and got 65? of it for myself." She finally got through high school at 25, college...
...situation is doubly damnable because there is at term's end enough furniture owned by men leaving college to satisfy most of the needs of the next term's arrivals. There is, however, no way by which the potential buyer is brought in contact with the seller. In the Spring everyone is trying to get rid of furniture, and in the Fall everyone is trying to acquire...
...tired and irritable because our greatest soldier [Montgomery] has been libelled and insulted by a scribbling American, Ralph Ingersoll, with little knowledge of military matters, to launch his best-seller [Top Secret]. . . . I also have holes in most of my shirts...
Died. Curtice N. Hitchcock, 54, president and co-founder of Reynal & Hitchcock, Manhattan publishers of best-seller Strange Fruit and Pulitzer-Prize winning V-Letter and Other Poems; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...uninspected barnyard slaughterhouses, the seller might suggest to the buyer: "Bet you $100 you can't hit the barn door with your hat at 100 yards...