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...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...Eberhart-Random House ($2). A series of murders near a Florida Army camp spells trouble for pretty, young Vicky Steane. But an Army-officer detective puts a stop to the frame-up of Miss Steane, and brings an intricately plotted and turbulent tale to a clinch conclusion that will satisfy readers who like their romance and mystery adroitly mixed...
...Angeles Y.M.C.A. hired him for a five-weeks' course for 4,000 adults, 1,500 youngsters. Back at Tulsa, Miller picked 100 Army air cadets, at random, taught them how to handle controls without strain or tension, reported to the Army that their washout rate had been cut a third below the average...
...Photos at $9 a week and bought his first Speed Graphic with snitched "train money." In 20 years Samuel Schulman has covered transatlantic flights, big murders (like the Lindbergh case), national political conventions, revolutions (in Cuba), war. Last week, in a 234-page book called Where's Sammy? (Random House; $2.50), he told the story of his life. (The book was really written by International News Service's Bob Considine, who also "edited" Captain Ted Lawson's recent Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
...standard works on Russia, combed encyclopedias. Since his book was to be a novel, Paul added to his research "some understanding of human nature and a little imagination." Then he set to work. In eight months he wrote 586 pages. Last fortnight, Paul Hughes's Retreat from Rostov (Random House, $2.75) reached the public. A week later it had sold out its advance edition of 15,000 copies...