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...Green, Cyril Ritchard, and Claudio Arrau...
...Nature's Wonderland" is the creation of General Mills' cereal-marketing manager, Cyril Plattes, 45. A passionate woodsman who keeps a canoe stashed handy to his Minneapolis home for quick response to the call of the wild, Plattes dreamed of such a book all the time he was stuffing model cars and magic tricks into cereal boxes. "If we're going to give the kids something," says he, "let's give them something to help them rather than, the usual old blah." Forsaking blah. Plat tes commissioned Dr. Walter J. Breckenridge, director of Minnesota...
...tongue-in-cheek British professor named Cyril Northcote Parkinson has won himself a reputation in recent years for evolving Parkinson's Laws, which have a disturbing way of showing the absurdity beneath the reality. Law One concerns bureaucracy: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Law Two on the same subject: "Expenditures rise to meet income." Now Parkinson, 53, currently a business consultant in Amsterdam, has unburdened himself of a Third Law, this time on corporations, in a book out this week (In-Laivs and Outlaws; Houghton Mifflin...
When an oilman named Cooper (Cyril Wheeler) planes into London with a case of smallpox, and some other seemingly unrelated cases develop, it becomes Terry-Thomas feverish chore to track down the carrier. In no time, several other plot strings become chronically entangled. Cooper's bride, Michele, played by a sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team...
...LONELY CONQUEROR, by Willi Heinrich (379 pp.; Dial; $4.95). British Critic Cyril Connolly once complained of the novelists who "can only sling a few traits on to the characters they are depicting and then hold them there. 'You can't miss So-and:So,' they explain, 'he stammers and now look, here he comes−;"What's your name?" "S-s-s-so- and-s-s-s-s-so" ' ' The novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako...