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Metropolitan Police Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside...
...Saul Bellow on Norman Mailer...
...roll album ever put out by a bunch of guys in their forties. They are now back to where they started, reviving Eddie Cochran and Smokey Robinson on Still Life and shamelessly churning through "Under My Thumb" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" while millions upon millions bellow their approval. In their latest incarnation as rock archivists, the Stones are once again leading the U.S. back to its own great heritage. And by this time, part of what they're bringing home and introducing to a new generation is wholly their...
Unfortunately, there are many reasons for the switch to electronics onstage. Many of the new houses are so big and poorly designed that an actor would have to bellow to be heard in the balcony. Some, like the Uris, where Annie is now playing, have such bad acoustics that, without a little help, even a foghorn would sound like a wheeze to someone sitting in the back row. There seems in fact to be a conspiracy to drown out the voice. Some composers have turned from strings and woodwinds to ever louder brasses and electronic instruments. Even Ethel Merman...
...Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...