Hardcover Nonfiction

by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer · Crown Publishers, Inc

by Edward Windsor, Duke of Windsor · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Ethel Waters and Charles Samuels · Doubleday

by Thor Heyerdahl · Rand McNally and Company

by Desmond Young · Harper and Brothers

by Lowell Thomas Jr · Greystone Press

by John Gunther · Harper and Brothers

by Paul G. Hoffman · Doubleday

by Fleeta Brownell Woodroffe · Meredith Publishing Company

by Gayelord Hauser · Farrar, Straus and Company

by Donald Powell Wilson · Rinehart and Company

by Mary Garden and Louis Biancolli · Simon & Schuster

by Arthur Mizener · Houghton Mifflin

by Marguerite Higgins · Doubleday and Company, Inc

by Frederick A. Pottle · McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc

by Elmer Wheeler · Prentice-Hall

Where and Why The Fat Boy's Book was written... Sitting quietly at Chambers of Commerce luncheons and banquets, waiting my turn on the lecture platform, gave me the idea of the need for a Fat Boy's Book. I began to observe around me the hodge-podge collection of "banker's shapes," affluent men who had made good, then relaxed and put on bay windows. Then I looked at myself. It was nice to see so much success in America, Land of Big Appetites and Opportunity, but, unfortunately, success had settled at the belt lines. So, surrounded by my best inspirations, I started to write, and many a Chamber secretary will now know for the first time what I was scribbling on the back of the song sheet "God Bless America!" It was The Fat Boy's Book. BE A MAN OF DISTINCTION: SWITCH FROM FAT TO TRIM