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...Shepards, father & son, know their 18th Century. Odell Shepard, Pulitzer Prize biographer of Bronson Alcott and onetime lieutenant governor of Connecticut, is also an eminent authority on 18th Century English prose and poetry. His son, Willard, is a specialist in early naval history. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made this learned collaboration its choice for April, but it takes a bit of special interest in either the 18th Century or Bonnie Prince Charlie to make up for all the talk in the library...
...list of "bourgeois" books banned by Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). First part of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
Crate Lifter. Then Bernstein heard that Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Alcott Thompson had developed an operation which quickly restored people like himself to useful, active lives. It sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy...