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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...
Ever since his Under Cover became a surprising best-seller (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), earnest undercoverman John Roy Carlson has kept hot on the trail of U.S. extremists, right & left. Using his pen name of Carlson* or any of several others suited to his purpose, he has applied for membership in the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan, listened to orations by the notorious George Van Horn Moseley and Gerald L. K. Smith, corresponded with a string of characters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including Utah's Marilyn R. ("Jesus was NOT a Jew, but an Israelite...
...even allowing for a starting push, Lawrence's band is doing well on its own. Their college dates were paying as high as $3,000 a night and their first record, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Strange Love, has been a steady seller for two months...
Literary critics can help boom a book into the best-seller lists. Drama critics can make or break a Broadway play. But for all the dent they make on moviegoers, film critics might as well stop frittering away their time...
...courts. As a result, Chase was twice publicly made quite the fool, once by the dyspeptic H. L. Mencken (who, incidentally, got valuable publicity for the infant Mercury) and once by the Society's own board of directors, who retreated in horror as Chase inveigled, almost hounded a book seller into trafficking in dubious literature so that Chase might have his test case. At this point Professor Julian Coolidge led a group of prominent Bostonians out of the Society that had once claimed President Eliot as a vice-president...