The Andy Williams Christmas Album 1963 (for the weeks ending November 30, 1963 through December 28, 1963), "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" was the number one selling Christmas album, while Williams' cover of "White Christmas" was the number one selling Christmas single. "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" spent three weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1964, and one week as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1965. It charted on "Billboard"'s Christmas Albums chart at least one week for each of the years that the chart was published. In 2018, when separate Christmas
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage