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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES By Aurelia Bennion Seventy-three-year-old Somerset Som-erset Maugham is to appear m movies shortly as star in ' Quintette" Quin-tette" an adaptation of five ot his short stories. One better is Louis Bromfield who is attempting attempt-ing to get the part of narrator in the movie version of KHjNini and also wants the picture to n filmed qp his Mansfield, O, farm. Lovers of Whodonits and especially es-pecially Erie Stanley Gardner-will Gardner-will be interested to know that his publishers (Morrow) announce an-nounce that during 1946 sales in the United States and Canada Can-ada amounted to 5,378,337 copies which bring his total sales to date to over 28,000,000 books (including (in-cluding reprint editions). To Be Released Jan. 12: Enthusiasts of Archie Binn's books will enjoy his new books here at Sprague Library. YON ROLLING RIVER which is the story of early Portland and Astoria, As-toria, which in 1865 played host to the entire world. This is an absorbing novel of adventure. Romulo Gallegos, newly elected elect-ed president of Venezuela is one of the best-known authors and his literary agents in New York are arranging for the republication republica-tion of his book "DONA BARBARA." BAR-BARA." Doubleday's $2500 George Washington Carver Award, established es-tablished last year to encourage worthwhile books by or about American Negros has been awarded to Dr. Oliver C. Cox of the Tuskegee Institute for his CASTE, CLASS AND RACE, a survey of racial conflicts; and on the same subject, is Stetson Kennedy's proposed new book to be called WHITE BOY (in contrast to Wright's BLACK BOY) which will show demor-alizing demor-alizing effects of Jim Crow on jH white people. The magazine chapters of the memoirs of the Duke of Windsor Wind-sor are slated for publication in book form when they are completed. com-pleted. NEW BOOKS: FRIENDS AND LOVERS, Helen Mclnnes. PORTRAIT' OF CAROLINE, E. Carfrae. FIRE IN THE SNOW, H. In-nes. In-nes. MY POLIO PAST, Noreen Linduska. THE COMING AGE OF ROCKET ROCK-ET POWER, Pendray. BEHIND THE SILKEN CURTAIN, B. C. Crum. MAN ALIVE, Moore. WICKED UNCLE, P. Went-worth. |
