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THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO-Ted W. Lawson-Random House...
...Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...
...Random House printed 100,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club took the book for August, printed 340,000 copies more. All told, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is expected to earn for its authors around a quarter of a million dollars...
Most theories presuppose that primitive man laboriously developed language from what were at first mere random sounds. According to the "ding-dongists," man's first words were based on the characteristic sounds made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic...
...hour battle above the Russian rail center of Kursk, 80 mi. south of Orel, Russian fighters fought a 500-German-plane armada to a standstill, forcing the Luftwaffe to dump its bombs at random. German losses to Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes were 162 planes; Russian plane losses...