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...CENTAURS (382 pp.)-Robert Graves-Doubleday...
...halo tradition are Stuart Symington (Doubleday; $3.95), This Is Humphrey (Doubleday; $3.95), The Real Nixon (Rand McNally; $3.95), and Nelson Rockefeller (Harper; $5.50). All four are tender love letters that would do credit to Elizabeth ("Let me count the ways") Barrett Browning. The Rockefeller book is an attempt to bring a glittering millionaire down to the aw-shucks level, e.g., he got a niggardly 25?-a-week allowance as a boy, didn't go to "any exclusive preparatory school," but to Manhattan's progressive Lincoln. It also contains some odd facts about the Governor...
...fact, the surprise and the question were ricocheting through the pop-music trade last week. Girl Singer (Doubleday; $3.95 ) was in the bookstores, and although the world in general had never heard of Deborah Ishlon, big-time agents, smalltime clarinetists, deejays, artists-and-repertory men, photographers and music publishers were browsing with interest. They all knew her as a 34-year-old former secretary who became the trade's nimblest pressagent and has lately assumed the portentous title of Coordinator of Creative Services for Columbia Records. While it may be less than literature, her novel nonetheless is an insider...
...RELUCTANT SURGEON (359 pp.)-John Kobler-Doubleday...
...EXECUTIVE (334 pp.)-David Granick-Doubleday...