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...OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated...
...lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh ("Escargots...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Hostess with the Mostes' casts Shirley Booth as Party Girl Perle Mesta. With Jackie Coogan. Hedda Hopper...
Only a Handful. Having passed the first hurdles, Giovanna was ordered into a U.N.-type interpreter's booth for a more difficult test: the simultaneous rendering into Italian of a speech in French, a second in English. Finally she took her place behind a "delegate's desk" and was ordered to do the same thing all over again, this time translating the text on sight. The ordeal over, the professors made their decision: Giovanna had passed...
Dave Carruthers (6-2) and Gene Booth, 6-1, the two small men, play the guards. Booth, the team's defensive standout, was hurt Saturday against Princeton, in a game which the Indians barely won, 75 to 74. He will be able to play tonight, though, and will probably try to hold down the Crimson star, Harrington...