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...creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's cook. So Lady Edith, who runs an orphanage near Bihar, India, delegates the job of python stalking to a half-Indian, half-American Quaker youth named Peter Bruff. Though courageous, Peter is an abstracted, mystical young man. He is also a poet, and his work, a heroic poem about the god Krishna, is going badly; he has caught the eye of a lustful Tibetan woman, who keeps luring him to her hut. A proper abnegation of the senses...
...sizzling battle was about or whom it was between. Fred H. Walsh, president of the advertising agency concerned (Cunningham & Walsh), insisted that he was completely in the dark: "Nobody here knows anything. It's a matter between Liggett & Myers and CBS." At Liggett & Myers, Advertising Manager Lawrence Bruff was not answering his phone...
CIDER FROM EDEN (331 pp.)-Nancy Bruff-Duff...
This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...
...Nancy Bruff, whose high-pressured novel The Manatee made her one of Park Avenue's greatest women writers, celebrated the pleasures of motherhood in a little piece for the New York Journal-American. In conclusion she informed her readers: "As for myself, I hope to produce another book and another baby next year...