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When it was all over, Stanley Blanks slogged wearily upstairs through the confetti; there, Mr. Streeter suggests, he may have got a saving brace on himself. For in the bathroom wash basin, chaste as a bride, stood the last, miraculously intact bottle of champagne...
Published this week is a new Sayers book that lies somewhere between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...
From the second until the ninth, Turner pitched hitless ball. He walked only two, made two nice stops, and recorded four strikeouts. Meanwhile, Harvard rallied for another brace of runs in the second inning...
COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON (113 pp.)-Harcourt, Brace...
...bestseller lists, said S.R.L., reporting bookstores are not weighted as to sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list...