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...entente cordiale did not last, of course-as Hedda makes abundantly clear in a newly released confessional. The Whole Truth and Nothing But (Doubleday, $4.95), which is Hedda's answer to Lolly's Tell It to Louella (TIME, Nov. 24, 1961). Nothing really wrong with Louella, says Hedda, except that she mangles her facts, plays favorites, and through her husband, Dr. Harry ("Docky-Wocky") Martin, used to wangle reports of the results of rabbit tests on the stars' pregnancies, so that Lolly sometimes knew of their delicate condition before the poor girls themselves. Maybe, Hedda hints, Louella...
TRIUMPH (277 pp.)-Philip Wylie-Doubleday...
...Americans "be happy" with the bland idea that no one need be blamed for the Civil War. It was caused, he says, by the extremism of a South that "always seems to have looked over its shoulder-frequently seeing what was not there." His just published The Emancipation Proclamation (Doubleday; $3.50) hopefully suggests that "perhaps" Lincoln's manifesto-100 years old last week-will eventually "give real meaning and purpose to the Declaration of Independence...
COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD, text and photographs by Bradley Smith (191 pp.; Doubleday; $15). As befits its subject, this one is less impressionistic than Photographer Beny's book on the Odyssey, but it is equally successful. The photographs are mostly in color, and they show the Caribbean as Columbus must have seen...
...current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven't honestly been able to believe that he is presidential timber"). Not surprisingly, Hughes is also leaving his former publishers. Doubleday & Co., who happen to be bringing out Eisenhower's memoirs. The new Hughes book will be published by Atheneum Press...