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Some old best-sellers still hung on-notably Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe; Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber; Samuel Shellabarger's Captain from Castile; Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Conspicuously missing from the lists at year's end were war novels of this and previous years, though Peter Bowman's Beach Red (TIME, Dec. 10) was the Book-of-the-Month Club's December choice...
...movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, U.S. sexseller (nearly a million copies), appeared this month on London's bookstalls. English critics thumbed through and condemned it as tedious, bad writing and worse taste. Typical was the reaction of the Evening Standard's reviewer: "Miss Winsor has attempted an erotic novel on a grand scale, swoony with ill-defined sex, written in a style that rasps the nerves like a Brooklyn accent. I gave up on page 272, by which time Amber had reached her eighth...
...Husband of Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever (seducible) Amber...