Betty Ballantine died at 99, following her husband Ian. They were very important in my life, because they founded the Bantam and Ballantine lines of paperbacks. In the 1950's I could find a rack or two of their paperbacks in a couple stores in Greene, NY, and at $.35 or $.50 they were affordable for a teen. I know I have a bunch of their books packed away in boxes. I remember their line of WWII books, one by Adolf Galland the German ace, and one by C. Vann Woodward on Leyte Gulf.
And the science fiction, though I can't be sure the books I remember were Ballantines, nor some of the fiction, like "God's Little Acre", the risque book of the times.
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