Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Deanna Durbin's the better half of the oil and water combination. Universal's number one box office attraction plays the part of a China missionary's daughter who brings a band of orphans, (the boys are cute and the girls are mournful), to America. The recent best-seller "Keys of the Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives on the scene, and Deanna's white lies (for the benefit of the orphans...
...best-seller cigaret among U.S. troops in London last week was Chelsea, a comparative newcomer, which outstripped all combined old-established brands 2½-to-1. The best-seller in Australia was a onetime "10?" brand called Domino, followed by Wings, Raleigh and Avalon. Reason: there were few if any Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes, Old Golds and Philip Morris available. At the Army canteen nearest MacArthur's headquarters, Avalons had been for a fortnight the only cigaret available...
...some time. If they cannot speak with any great eloquence for themselves, their work speaks for them with widening effect. Large, gregarious Hilaire was born 44 years ago in St. Paul. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, majored in finance at the insistence of Papa (longtime notions seller and theatrical agent), flunked out after two years. Informed by two Philadelphia art schools that he could never learn to draw, he taught himself the piano and the saxophone, thought he would support himself as a Paris art student by jazz playing. But he was forcibly removed from a Europe-bound...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick's On Being A Real Person (TIME, March 15) with 75,000 copies already printed, holds third place on national nonfiction best-seller lists...
People have turned to inspirational reading more quickly, and in far greater numbers, than they did in World War I. The current national best-seller list includes two novels with religious themes. Jewish refugee Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette (a story of Our Lady of Lourdes) has sold over 500,000 copies. Protestant Minister Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe (a story of Christ's passion) has sold 240,000 copies...