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...empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
...civil rights drives). Transferred five times and finally suspended from curate duties in Santa Monica after he advocated a white-collar labor union for priests (TIME, March 4), DuBay hardly boosted his case with the hierarchy by sharply criticizing it in his recently published book, The Human Church (Doubleday, $4.50). Among his many radical suggestions: priests and bishops should be elected by their parishioners, and parochial schools should be abandoned in favor of more informal religious instruction...
GILES GOAT-BOY by John Barth. 710 pages. Doubleday...
...extent of Jackie's antipathy to unremitting publicity is recorded by Salinger in a book which is to be published by Doubleday in September and is being serialized meanwhile in Good Housekeeping. The First Lady bombarded him with memos, "usually in outrage," protesting "deficiencies in my efforts to preserve the privacy of the children." One little-known factor with in the Kennedy menage was the President's allergy to animal fur-a handicap he bore nobly in view of the expansive zoo of dogs, hamsters, ponies and other pets maintained by the Kennedy children. One of the hamsters...
...HEARS BUT HIM, by Taylor Caldwell (298 pages; Doubleday; $4.95), is Old Pro Caldwell's 24th book-not exactly a novel or a sequel but more like an addendum to her 1960 bestseller The Listener. Once again readers are introduced to the strange John Godfrey sanctuary, where the Man who Listens soothes the frightened and despairing of the world. This time the sad samples who pour out their case histories include a minister who has lost his faith, a 33-year-old playboy who never grew up, a rich man who has nothing except money, and a Negro agonizing...