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President Pusey returns to Appleton, Wis., Wednesday for the first time since he became President of Harvard, to receive an honorary degree from Lawrence College...
LAUNCELOT, MY BROTHER, by Dorothy James Roberts (373 pp.; Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95). The inside story, told by Sir Launcelot's brother Bors de Garis of the triangle formed by King Arthur, Queen Guenivere and the famed Knight of the Round Table. Author Roberts has the good taste to follow Sir Thomas Malory and Alfred Lord Tennyson in keeping the characters perfectly unreal and tucking the dalliance between the lines rather than between the sheets...
...Midnight Patient, by Egon Hostovsky (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3), is a spy thriller about a psychiatrist who gets involved in a plot to blow up New York City. Blowing up New York, of course, is an idea that comes to everybody in the big city sooner or later, but Author Hostovsky has worked off his urge with uncommon ingenuity. The analyst is asked by a U.S. secret agent to examine another agent who has suddenly lost his nerve on the eve of his biggest assignment. For $20,000 the doctor agrees to treat the man every midnight. All at once...
...sitting in front of a tea service. Opposite her sits a smallish, bespectacled man, his legs crossed, a dark, unlit pipe in his hand. Grouped in a circle with them are two Nieman Fellows, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Classics professor, two visitors from a small school in Appleton, Wisconsin, an itinerant Dutchman, and a teaching fellow in History. The tone of the conversation is serious, the expressions of the participants intent. They are discussing the situation facing L'il Abner and Daisy...
...Vivian T. Pomeroy of the First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Milton will officiate at a memorial service in honor of the late Bliss Perry, former Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Appleton Chapel. Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will assist Rev. Pomeroy...