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...History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell Wright. It is salutary to note that the first English translation of Proust's Swanris Way did not make...
...hammers out the names of winners, followed by amounts ranging from $1 to $1,000. Humble Oil invites drivers to stop by at its filling stations to play "Tigerama." Mobil's "Winning Line" offers $1,000 to anybody who completes a card with pictures of three gas pumps; Sinclair offers up to $2,500 to customers who match up coupons to spell out a slogan in its "Dino Dollars" contest. With no requirement that the driver buy gas (thus ensuring that the games will not be classified as lotteries) and with prizes including watches, luggage, color-TV sets, automobiles...
...interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges for gold in the Peruvian Andes, owns chunks of industrial land near Sacramento, runs a West Indian oil refinery with Standard of Indiana, holds large oil exploration rights with Sinclair in Java and along the Red Sea. Such far-flung operations have made Davies many times a millionaire; his Natomas shares alone were worth $17.9 million on the New York Stock Exchange at week...
...existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson did get a number of other bills past Capitol Hill's axmen, most notably: expanded air-pollution control, a consular treaty with Moscow, an outer-space treaty, the first meat-inspection program since Upton Sinclair's exposes inspired a similar bill in 1906, and a major increase in social security benefits...
...genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...