Word: superslick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizer eventually gets the shiv in a manner viciously reminiscent of the death of I.L.G.W.U.'s William Lurye in 1949, and after a while the dress manufacturer cops it too. That leaves only the manufacturer's son (Kerwin Mathews), a superslick young article who hoodwinks the hoods and apparently manages with unseemly haste to inherit the organizer's widow along with his father's business...
...Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick True Story (circ. 2,573,543). "But that's the way people...
...more than a quarter of a century Novelist Edna Ferber has specialized in just one kind of book-the bestseller. Whether she writes about the Midwest (So Big), the Northeast (American Beatify), or the Northwest (Come and Get It), the result is the same: a blend of regionalism and superslick storytelling that guarantees the bookseller some of his happiest moments. In all fairness, she gives her faithful reader full money's worth as well. Consistent old pro that she is, Author Ferber has undoubtedly done it again at 65 with Giant, her eleventh novel and her first in seven...