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...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
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...were sewer-written by dirty-fingered authors for dirty-minded readers. We aren't going to further this game by giving publicity to such authors and their titles." This week the Trib printed a revised list of bestsellers from which two titles had been scrubbed. The missing works: Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's steamy bedroom-and-gutter account of his expatriate years in France; and The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins' blatantly biological study of Hollywood's seams...
...Trib's self-appointed censor was Editor William D. Maxwell, 61. Recently hospitalized, Maxwell waded selectively through his paper's bestseller list, was scandalized by The Carpetbaggers and Tropic of Cancer. "I found language in there that you wouldn't hear in a men's locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...
FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy,Stone (1)* 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2) 3. Mila 18, Uris (3) 4. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (5) 5. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (4) 6. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (6) 7. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (7) 8. Rembrandt, Schmitt (8) 9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (9) 10. Mothers and Daughters, Hunter