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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN PAUL JONES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Morison is not at his best when his hero (who at one time served Catherine the Great as Rear Admiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones) is ashore, but in describing the fighting at sea, Morison has no superior...
...best (and most expensive) screen spectacle ever produced...
...Best Reading...
...TIME'S choice of outstanding books published in 1959, see THE YEAR'S BEST, page...
...Best Sellers FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2.) 3. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (4) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (3) 6. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (9) 7. Exodus, Uris (5) 8. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (8) 10. A Fever in the Blood, Pearson NONFICTION 1 . Act One, Hart ( 1 ) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (2) 4. The Status Seekers, Packard (3) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (7) 6. For 2? Plain...