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Testament. When Douglas Fairbanks Sr. died suddenly last Dec. 12, Hollywood's wise men guessed his estate would be a whopper, but did not know how much, or who would be his heirs. Last week Douglas Fairbanks' will was filed in Manhattan. It disposed of an estate of more than...
Artillery of Time-Chard Powers Smith-Scribner ($2.75). An undisciplined whopper (853 pages) about two New York State farm boys, one of whom carries the ball for rising U. S. industrialism (in the '50s and '60s), the other for democratic idealism...
...French and Indian Wars, are the stuff of which Next to Valour is made. Its author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief that "a whopping good story could be written of the time." Next to Valour is indeed a whopper-820 pages, full of "God's wounds" and "I'll warrants" and "Your servant, sirs"-but not such a whopper as Anthony Adverse or Gone With the Wind. Nevertheless, Next to Valour moves quickly and adventurously, should be a natural for Hollywood...
With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories...
...three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story to the press...