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...pored over 99 manuscripts, Mr. Mayer handed out the money, for his $125,000-plus acquired screen rights which, at a generous estimate, he could have bought in the open market for $50,000. What he bought was Green Dolphin Street, by Britain's lushly lyrical Elizabeth Goudge 13th City of Bells; The Castle on the Hill). It was already the September choice of the Literary Guild. Flushed with good fortune, Publishers Coward-McCann (who got a $25,000 pourboire from Mr. Mayer) promptly prepared to increase the $10,000 they had already earmarked for advertising a book that...
...Romanesque Baptistery, dating from 1153, containing an ornate 13th-Century pulpit by Niccola Pisano, an octagonal font built in 1246 by Bigarelli of Como...
...Bougainville the hungry Japs back in the jungles had taken to cultivating patches of vegetables. The 13th Air Force, trying to chivvy the Japs down to the beach to fight again, went after these truck gardens...
...baseball's gaggiest managers could find little to gag about last week. On the very day he placed as the third most playful pilot on a baseball writers' poll, Charlie Grimm watched his Chicago Cubs take their 13th consecutive licking. It tied the worst early-season losing streak in the majors, set by the Washington Senators...
Cronin's men quietly invaded International House. If the girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs...