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...universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether/or; and the literately preposterous script by Cyril Hume will probably strike most grownups as being just as plausible as any irrational number...
...GIRL WITH THE SWANSDOWN SEAT (263 pp.)-Cyril Pearl-Bobbs-Merrill...
...seems that more things went on behind Queen Victoria's billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons have been led to believe. It is probably too late to set matters straight, but Australian Cyril Pearl has made an industrious try at striking "Victorianism" from the lexicon as the synonym for middle-class prudery...
...indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Oddly enough, it is the countess' way of dying rather than living that is memorable. Pacing half-crazed on the burning deck of her memories, she becomes a strangely gallant figure calling to mind two lines...
Other newly elected executives were: Donald L. Shapiro '57, Business Manager; Cyril V. Smith, Jr. '58, Production Manager; Howard L. Isaacson '57, Sales Manager; Neil P. Olken '57, Circulation Manager; Elliot L. Goldman '57, Advertising Manager; Michael D. Klein '57, Editorial Chairman...