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...sooner did the full-page ad for Allen Drury's bestseller Advise and Consent appear in the New York Times last week than telephones started ringing at Publisher Doubleday & Co. and its ad agency, Franklin Spier. How in the world had Doubleday lined up those models? There was Vice President Richard Nixon standing beside an airliner chatting animatedly with Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kennedy. The apparent object of conversation: Advise and Consent, gripped firmly in Nixon's hand...
...Both men had been traveling west from Washington last June 19 on a United Air Lines DC-7, were met by reporters during a layover in Chicago. The airline photographer assigned to celebrity duty asked the two men to pose, and handed Nixon the advance copy of Advise and Consent that Kennedy had been reading on the flight. United ran the picture in the October issue of the company's Mainliner magazine, sent a copy to Newsman Drury, who passed it on to Doubleday. The publishers tried a small ad in the Washington Post, then went whole hog with...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
...that, Pinay is by common consent De Gaulle's most effective minister. Executing plans drawn up by Economic Braintruster Jacques Rueff, he carried through-without the usual rapid and disastrous rise in prices-the devaluation that gave the franc a strength it had not enjoyed in international markets since 1936. Introducing economic liberalism into France's closed economy, he made the franc convertible, hacked away at government subsidies, even persuaded French business to abandon its traditional protectionism and go wholeheartedly into the Common Market. Heartened by the knowledge that Pinay was at the helm, wealthy Frenchmen repatriated massive...
FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (2)*. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (3) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 7. Exodus, Uris (4) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 10. The Breaking Point, Du Maurier NONF1CTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 4. The Longest Day, Ryan (6) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (4) 6. The Status Seekers, Packard...