Editing The Fountainhead (section)

===Other adaptations===
In 1944, ''[[Omnibook Magazine]]'' produced an [[abridged]] edition of the novel that was sold to members of the [[United States Armed Forces]]. Rand was annoyed that Bobbs-Merrill allowed the edited version to be published without her approval of the text.{{sfn|Heller|2009|p=187}} [[King Features Syndicate]] approached Rand the following year about creating a condensed, illustrated version of the novel for [[Print syndication|syndication]] in newspapers. Rand agreed, provided that she could oversee the editing and approve the proposed illustrations of her characters, which were provided by [[Frank Godwin]]. The 30-part series began on December 24, 1945, and ran in over 35 newspapers.{{sfn|Sciabarra|2004|p=6}} Rand biographer Anne Heller complimented the adaptation, calling it "handsomely illustrated".{{sfn|Heller|2009|p=187}} To provide publicity for a translation of the novel into French, the Swiss publisher Jeheber allowed the [[Swiss Broadcasting Corporation]] to air a [[radio play]] adaptation in the late 1940s. Rand did not authorize the adaptation and learned about it through a letter from a Swiss fan in 1949.{{sfn|Brühwiler|2021|p=135}}