Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be news, I feel pretty sure, to the author of your article that our biggest seller in 1944, after A Bell for Adano, was Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, which will have sold over 60,000 copies in 1944 alone, although it was first published 21 years ago. He points out as remarkable, and rightly so, total printings of 30,000 copies for Russell Daven port's My Country. I wonder if he has heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately...
...forgotten man, ex-Under Secretary of State Welles writes a weekly syndicated column for the New York Herald Tribune, wrote a best-seller (The Time for Decision; TIME, July 24), edited the forthcoming An Intelligent American's Guide to the Peace, broadcasts over the Mutual network...
Storytelling was at a premium in straight novels as well as mysteries. It was the story (plus plenty of sex) that sent lush young Kathleen Winsor's lush Restoration romance, Forever Amber, rocketing to the top of best-seller lists despite the author's mediocre craftsmanship...
...national interest could account for the extraordinary popularity of Sumner Welles's authoritative but ponderously written treatise on world organization, The Time for Decision, which week after week stayed second only to Bob Hope's I Never Left Home (1,250,000 copies) on the nonfiction best-seller lists and finally topped them...
...coping with a maze of inconceivably funny situations, the two young leading Indies preserve all the delightful style that made the book a best seller. They manage somehow to seem perfectly at home smuggling a case of measles into England or sleeping on the tower of Notre Dame. To describe further their troubles would be to give the picture away. "Our Hearts" is not a memorable production but is well worth and evening...