Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1950 — Page 9

‘ Japs Crave

‘The Naked and the Dead" Leads Best Seller List By KEYES BEECH, Times Special Correspondent TOKYO, Japan, Jan. (war novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” backed by ballyhoo, is a best seller in Japan. Published in mid-December, the book sold 30,000 copies in three weeks. An additional 10,000 copies are coming off

27—Norman Mailer’s hard-bitten =u

Group on ents | WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (1 ~—Henry A. Wallace said yesterday he had nothing to do with wartime atomic shipments to Russia and, in fact, he didn't even know they were made. The former Vice President made the statement to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee | in answer to charges that he actually helped in such ts,

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| unknown in Japan, ahd with four. “name” authors are favored, Gone With The Wind” is a {publication of his book was y 2" '» i widely advertised on billboards, AMERICAN CHILDREN'S sandwich signs and streetcar books are enormously popular. posters. Five of a series of 18 by Maud, One reviewer commented that and Miska Petersham sold 20,000 on the basis of Mr. Mailer's book copies each immediately after| American soldiers were not much publication, different from Japanese soldiers.! The. Kinsey Report is now in| Publication of the book here process of translation, provided an acid test of the occu- lication is awaited with breathpation’s press and publications less anticipation. policy, for seldom has the Ameri-| Because 0“ the paper shortage, can GI been more unfavorably, Japanese publishers generally 4 portrayed. want “good little books.” In ’ s =® =» {translation from English ‘to JapTHE JAPANESE are hungry anese the average book, which

{for any American book on the sells for from 35 to 50 cents,

: gains 75 per cent In printed , Pacific war, fact or fiction. volume.

| A scholarly account eof “The Copyright, 1880. by The, Indianapolis Times i - J ws, {Japanese at Leyte Gulf,” by anf Chicase Dally News, ‘ne

|James A. Field, has sold 32,000 Purdue Reschedules

| copies. It was translated by Goro | Nakano, former Japanese naval Burl Ives Program

officer who is also translating LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 27— {Samuel Eliot Morrison's naval Cancellation of a piang concert | history of the Pacific war. by Myra Hess, scheduled for Mar. | Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelber- 14, and rescheduling of the Burl ger's “Our Bloody Jungle Road to|/Ives programs for Mar. 10 and 11 Tokyo,” running as a newspaper at Purdue University have been serial, is a sensational publish- announced ing success. After two New York concerts, Former Ambassador Grew's Miss Hess was forced to cancel | “Ten Years in Japan” still heads her American tour because of ill- | the American best-seller list with ness and return to England. {a sale of 142,000 copies. The dates now set for the Ives Pearl Buck has had seven programs are the third for these books translated into Japanese— concerts. The two previous dates more than any other American were both canceled due to illness.

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Mr. Wallace said that despite his role in this country’s war efforts, he was “neither responsible nor aware” of any kind of shipping to Russias. That, he gaid, {was in the hands of lend-lease. Mr. Wallace said he didn’t even know the name of the A-bomb development project was — |“Manhattan District” until May, |1945, when Harold Smith, then [director of the budget, informed |him of the name. He repeatedly insisted that he knew nothing of consequence ' about development of the atomic ener program after Sept. 23, 1942. He said it passed from the scientific to the construction stage

Sixty salesmen of the Rish Equipment Co., operating in four cities in West Virginia and Ohio, are learning the products they handle by seeing them made. Two busloads visited the J. D. Adams | road machinery plant in Indianapolis en route to three plant cities in Illinois. Roy E. Adams, chair. | man of J. D. Adams, was host here.

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