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FORTY CENTURIES LOOK DOWN - F. Britten Austin-Stokes ($2.50). Historically accurate, interesting but awkward novel of Napoleon's military and marital strategies in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798; the second installment of bold Romancer Austin's super-serial covering Napoleon's major campaigns...
...continuous discharge book looks like a passport, has a serial number. Each seaman must get one from the Department of Commerce, which keeps a duplicate. In the book is space for the seaman's photograph, signature and fingerprints. There are spaces for official records of 84 voyages. Duplicate information must be sent to Washington. Seamen call them "fink books," claim that they lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by the shipowners. If a seaman is an agitator or striker, all the line has to do is record the number of his book, then refuse ever to hire him again...
...that she ever fell. Instead she took to writing, turned many a might-have-been into the wishfulfillment of words. "I drew, out of my vivid imagination, material to satisfy my own unfulfilled longing for romantic love." Her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth, came out as a newspaper serial, made such a hit that it was published as a book. A love-starved public called for more. By 1917 a popular edition of Elinor Glyn's books sold a million copies. Her most famed tale. Three Weeks (1907), which she wrote in six, raised a storm in pulpit...
...Chatterbox annual came in 1920 when 148,000 copies went to British girls & boys, 12,000 to children in America and the Dominions. Last year the monthly issues were discontinued, but the Chatterbox annual is still printed like a bound volume of a magazine, so that the instalments of serial stories are scattered piecemeal throughout the book. For Christmas 1936, Dean & Son have printed 30,000 copies of Chatterbox. In keeping with the times it features streamlined trains and aviation, but still carries old-fashioned school & cricket stories...
...time exclusively, Radio's No. i customer is not likely to be inconvenienced this autumn, as will many another advertiser, by the many and unavoidable interruptions caused by the political oratory of a Presidential campaign. As in the past, most of P. & G.'s programs will be serial dramas designed, like the fiction in women's magazines, for housewifely appeal. For these programs, talent cost is relatively...