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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other revealing book by a TIME & LIFE correspondent (and one that has climbed close to the top of the best-seller lists) is A Bell for Adano, John Hersey's story of what he learned as one of three correspondents who covered the occupation of Sicily for TIME & LIFE...
Three weeks ago Earl Jones purchased the Massillon Independent (circ. 11,858) for "around $400,000." The seller was Philadelphia's Walter Annenberg. Publisher Jones promptly announced that the Independent and the Zanesville News (circ. 13,006), which he started four and a half years ago, would be links of a new chain of Ohio dailies. He detailed no plans, but those who knew of his operations in Zanesville expected nothing less than revolutions...
...confident man, he has married scholarship to intellectual impertinence with amusing and sometimes instructive results. His chief conviction is that if one knows how to think, one can think about anything. Four years ago Professor Adler was busy telling the U.S. public the "rules" of reading in a best-seller (TIME, March 18, 1940) which he gaily titled How to Read a Book. How to Think About War and Peace is another potential bestseller...
Ethnologist Adney has always been a curious fellow. As artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly he covered the Klondike Gold Rush of '97, proved that Robert Henderson and not George ("Siwash") Carmack made the original strike. He came home, wrote a best seller (The Klondike Stampede), lectured and had his picture in a parka plastered on American billboards...
...demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...