Bradley beam., 1944-12-02
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1 ing the books they are reading. With that in mind, this weeks
 column will be devoted to a re-
 gional analysis of the best-seller
 list which appeared in last Sun
 days paper. The books are listed
 in order of popularity as reported
 by leading bookstores.
 Out in San Francisco they're
 reading Forever Amber, "Im-
 mortal Wife,, Green Dolphin
 Street" 7, "Time Must Have a Stop"
 and Leave Her to Heaven" in the
 fiction line, and in non-fiction
 they're boring over People on Our
 Side", "The Time for Decision" !,
 "Anna and the King of Siam" |,
 "The World of Washington Irv-
 ing", and Yankee From Olym-
 pus".
 Down South
 Down South, in Atlanta, their
 fiction reading is headed by "For-
 ever Amber, '"The Robe", "Leave
 Her to Heaven, Strange Fruit"
 and. Green Dolphin Street., and
 their non-fiction by Time for De- / cision", q Never Left Home", "The
 World of Washington Irving, and
 Lees Lieutenants''
 Chicago, representative of the
 Middle West, hankers for Forever
 Amber, Immortal Wife,, Earth
 and High Heaven, Green Dolphin
 Street., and "The Razor's Edge".
 For non-fction they are asking
 for "I Never Left Home", "Time ] for Decision," Yankee From
 Olympus, Lees Lieutenants", :, and "The World of Washington l Irving.
 BOstOnians
 Bostonlans officially head their list with "Green Dolphin Street" ("Forever Amber" is forever
 banned there) and continue with "Leave Her to Heaven, "The ] Razor's Edge", Pastoral, and
 ''The Robe". For non-fction they're
 burning the midnight oil over 'The
 Time for Decision, "Yankee from
 Olympus, "I Never Left Home, Lees Lieutenants", and Anna
 and the King of Siam.
 Sophisticated New Workers aren't so different after all! They are
 buying Forever Amber, Green
 Dolphin Street,, "Leave Her to
 Heaven, Earth and High Heav- en-, and Immortal Wife,. In non- fiction, "Yankee from Olympus" |,
 "The Time for Decision, "I Never
 Left Home'', "Lee's Lieutenants" and Anna and the King of Siam. All these books are available at your Base Library. We suggest that you stop in and sign up for them for they are popular at Brad ley Field, too.
 Thumb Nail Sketches Since all these books have been reviewed in this column in the past
 we'll give here only a "thumb-nail sketch" to whet your interest. Forever Amber, by Kathleen Winsor does for Restoration Eng land what "Gone With the Wind''
 did for our own Civil War era. It's
 heroine will remind you of Scar
 lett, too! "Green Dolphin Street, /,
 by Elizabeth Goudge, is a long TO- mantle novel seemed in the Channel Islands and New Zealand. It's story is the eternal triangle, this time involving two beautiful sisters and navy man. "Leave Her to Heav- I en-, by Ben Ames Williams, is a psychological novel in which the character of a beautiful but de- spicable woman is the motivating force. "The Razor's Edge, by w.. Somerset Vaughan, is a character 1 study of a young American flyer 1 in World War I, and the story is | of his search for a personal peace.
 Immortal Wife,, by Irving Stone is biographical novel about Jessie ! Fremont, the indomitable wife of John Fremont, explorer and geographer. Earth and High \