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DEATH OF A HIGHBROW (256 pp.)-Frank Swlnnerfon-Doubleday...
...most of Europe, reports Granick in his new book. The European Executive (Doubleday; $4.95), a man's social background and schooling largely determine whether he can hope to reach the top in business. In France, an executive who aspires to head a major corporation must not only be a man of broad general culture but should also hold an engineering degree from Paris' blue-ribbon Ecole Polytechnique. (Of 15 top French corporation chiefs interviewed by Granick, eight were Polytechnique graduates.) Ideally, a French executive should "parachute" into business only after several years in the higher ranks...
...publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year for the first time...
...BIBLE SALESMAN (257 pp.)-Alma Stone-Doubleday...
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE (783 pp.)-Herman Wouk-Doubleday...