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...Moral Code. Theodor H. Caster's The Dead Sea Scriptures (Doubleday; $4-Anchor Books; 95?) is the first complete English translation of the scrolls for laymen. Now visiting professor of history of religions at Columbia University and professor of comparative religion at Dropsie College, Gaster prints the virtually complete text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard...
...collection and belongs to the Manuscript Society which numbers some 6,000 autographphiles. The more important autographs in his collection are the signature of Louis XV (on a Lettre de Cachet, instrumental in the French Revolution), the New York Yankees' baseball contracts from 1927, the signature of General Abner Doubleday, the founder of the National Game of Baseball; and the autographs of U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas Nast, and all the Presidents since William McKinley...
...spends about $5,000 a month keeping up with the duties of an ex-President. All his expenses come out of his own pocket, but Truman was one of the few U.S. Presidents to save money in office, has since picked up some handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from King Features for his European series. His main office chores: answering the weekly mail, which ranges from 2,000 to 7,000 letters, autographing his Memoirs, and-increasingly with the convention drawing closer-greeting Democratic visitors who troop in to see him-some old friends...
...HAVEN'T SEEN HER LATELY, by E. X. Ferrars (186 pp.; Doubleday; $2.75), asks some arresting questions but dawdles a little too long over the answers. Has dear old Aunt Violet, married late in life, been done in by a Bluebeard husband? Or is she merely being driven out of her mind so that he can control her property and income? The nicely drawn English countryside is pleasant and relaxing, but the colorless romance of Aunt Violet's niece, who spearheads the inquiries, is soporific...
...PROPHET & THE KING (382 pp.)-Shirley Watkins-Doubleday...