Word: whittlesey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales to date: 10 million copies, an alltime record for U.S. fiction. In 1945, a Random House editor read A Lion Is in the Streets, by Adria Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list...
MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...