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...HIVE OF BEES (180 pp.)-John Crompton-Doubleday...
EXODUS (626 pp.)-Leon Uris-Doubleday...
...book, Seen Any Good Movies Lately? (Doubleday; $3-75), ex-Critic Zinsser takes up in general terms the question that has had New York newsmen buzzing for weeks: Was Bill Zinsser kicked upstairs because of pressure from advertisers? "It is generally assumed in New York motion picture circles." Zinsser writes, "that a movie studio can soften an adverse review-in advance-by bringing pressure on a newspaper. Unhappily, there is some truth in this belief." He insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with...
...speaker is referring to the advertising business and is himself one of Manhattan's peons of praise-a little adman who wants to become a big adman. He is the main character of A Twist of Lemon (Doubleday; $3.95), a Madison Avenue novel by Adman (Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc.) Edward Stephens, who writes in a style that is alternately arch and fallen arch. But Author Stephens' protagonist would instantly be on knife-in-the-back, wife-in-the sack terms with the huckster-heroes of half a dozen other new novels. The salient feature of this season...
...LONG DREAM (384 pp.)-Richard Wright-Doubleday...