Word: wrappers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holdouts) weeks ahead of the announced publication date. All previous attempts to publish the book in the U.S. have ended in customs or post office bans, and for 26 years Cancer and the other Miller Tropic-Capricorn-have been unknown to Americans, except as tourist and G.I. plain-wrapper souvenirs of Paris...
...they can go on eating as much as they like and still lose weight, so long as they drink their Metrecal. Even those who know better are sometimes weak in will power. Office workers in one San Francisco place recently heard the telltale sound of a crinkling candy-bar wrapper, found a devout but spineless dieter surreptitiously gobbling chocolate and cookies at her desk...
...awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford, the U.S.'s leading plain-wrapper author (Dangerous Love, Illicit...
...reality, the new edition is only a four-page wrapper for the regular issue. But Editor Jackson spoke bravely of the future: "A modest beginning to a restoration of the larger coverage and service and, we hope, the circulation we once had." Even so, Jackson went right on beseeching partyliners for alms to pay the Worker's debts of about $70,000. For the Worker, prosperity still seems permanently around the corner...