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WINTER KILLS by RICHARD CONDON 304 pages. Dial...
...high accomplishment were, like child molesting, a forgivable crime-if Nobel-prizewinning scientists, wives of former Presidents, old poets and athletes and desiccated jazz musicians were allowed to sink into honorable obscurity five years or so after their last attestable attack of greatness-there would be no Richard Condon problem...
...humane society would let Condon off the hook. His early books, The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and A Talent for Loving, are among the maddest funny novels of the last couple of decades. They seemed to have been written by Mephistopheles, raucous with glee at the insane excesses of the human creature. But Condon's last several books have been querulous and scolding...
Died. Edward Uhler Condon, 72, the distinguished nuclear physicist who became a target of postwar Red-baiters; of heart disease; in Boulder, Colo. Condon's experiments in 1943 on the separation of U-235 were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. In 1945 he was named head of the National Bureau of Standards. Three years later, despite loyalty clearances by two Government agencies, he was branded "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The specific charge-a flimsy one-was that Condon had associated socially with Eastern European...
Died. Eddie Condon, 67, jazz guitarist, bandleader and elder statesman of the Dixieland style, who was often called the father of the improvisational "Chicago school" of jazz; after a long bout with cancer; in Manhattan...