Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week, Author Carl Crow's reputation rested on his richly flavored understanding of the Chinese, his long-term hatred of the Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine languages. But this week Carl Crow's twelfth book-The Great American Customer (Harper; $3)-proved that its author was also an adept in U.S. business history...
...Malta about the hottest spot this side of hell appeared an old familiar face last week. Its somewhat-forgotten owner was Major General John Hay Beith, better known to U.S. readers by his pen name: Ian Hay. Author Hay's The First Hundred Thousand was the biggest best-seller among World War I war books until Private Peat and Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top went over...
...published a popular history of the British Army (original title: The King's Service). Now called The British Infantryman, the book is a strong seller among the paper-covered Penguins...
Marie Corelli, best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
...celebrated player of comedy parts in the plays of Shakespeare, Congreve, Jonson, Fielding, etc. His name, after his death in 1738, was fastened to a book of 247 jokes, sayings, anecdotes (Joe Miller's Jests; or The Wits Vade-Mecum). It was a best-seller and, with hundreds of added jokes, inevitably became the comedian's Bible...