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...SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY (256 pp.) - Morey Bernstein - Doubleday...
...HAMISH GLEAVE (316 pp.)- Richard Llewellyn-Doubleday...
H.M.S. ULYSSES (316 pp.)-Alistair MacLean-Doubleday...
Died. George H. Doran, 86, who rose from a $2-a-week bookstore clerk to become co-publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual...
...prize-winning story will be published along with 15 others by Doubleday in its thirty-sixth annual volume of O. Henry Prize Stories...