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Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
HIGH TOWERS (403 pp.)-Thomas B. Costain-Doubleday...
...faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that a lot is wrong with Europe's vision. He writes: "Europe looks toward America with such great hopes! But at the same time she harbors such great and .. . absurd suspicions...
CATALINA (275 pp.) - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
STORM AND ECHO (274 pp.)-Frederic Prokosch-Doubleday...