![]() ![]() 1 is "A Lion Is in the Streets," by Adria Locke Langley. Forester No.2 is Samuel Shellabarger's "Captain from Castile" and No. 5 is "The Ballad and the Source" by Rosamond Lehmann No. 6 is Taylor Caldwell's "The Wide House" No. 8 is Upton Sinclair's "Dragon Harvest" No. 9 is "Earth and High Heaven" by Gwethalyn Graham, a Canadian romance No. 10 is "Forever Amber: by Kathleen Winsor, a romance novel No. As for Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," 754 pages of pure beef, it could stop a tank. Douglas's "The Robe," eleventh on the list, and be sure of fending off small-arms fire. What ever happened to the wartime paper shortage? On the home front, if you looked up and saw the Germans coming across the Hudson you could hold up your copy of Lloyd C. Men who don't consider a novel to be a novel unless you can use it to brain a horse. Running your eye down the twenty most popular novels of the day, you won't find many bantamweights we're talking big hitters here-names like Steinbeck, Irving Stone, and A.J. ![]() It could take on any current list and knock it cold. The Times best-seller list for July 1, 1945, is strong stuff. ANNALS OF POPULARITY about the New York Times best-seller list of 1945. ![]()
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