QUOTE]Originally posted in part by Auburn Annie:
That's 1*9*64, right? And if you mean the UA symbol on the bottom right of the second cover, it looks like it was lifted and adapted from the current UA logo (except the A in the real logo has 3 bars instead of one.) See the wikipedia article on United Artists for their current logo. This is way too sleek for the 60s which IIRC was more like stylized alphabet blocks with a triangle-shaped A, no bar.
I know, TMI. [/QUOTE]
Thanks Annie for spotting my deliberate typo
Yes I was indeed referring to the UA logo bottom right
as you said the current logo has three bars

In contrast the 50's logo was

and

or even

John Fowles
she said "please, please, i've lost my way
the current is too strong