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THIS VERY EARTH (254 pp.)—Erskine Caldwell — Duel!, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75). Erskine Caldwell, chronicler of the seamy side of the Southern woes, is the leading bestseller-novelist in the world.* ...

ERSKINE CALDWELL had consented to be interviewed at his home on Twin Peaks in San Francisco immediately following last Christmas, when the film made from his phenomenally popular God’s Little Acre was ...

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