Books: Bestseller Revisited, Mar. 14, 1960
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$100,000 & Up. As an old boy from Old Vienna, Alex King is too savvy not to know that his brand of nonconformity is a hotter commercial item right now than togetherness. Before Mine Enemy grows weeks older (it just appeared in a paperback edition), the royalties from that book alone will cross the $100,000 mark. The third volume of King's memoirs is under way, and will contain no anecdotes ("It is about me"). Perhaps he has been wounded by a recent sally. "I notice," said a fellow wit, "that you are not going to ruin your autobiography by putting your life into it."
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