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...CALLED IT CULTURE (272 pp.]-Victoria Case and Robert Ormond Case-Doubleday...
...widely syndicated of all U.S. book reviewers (24 newspapers). Five years ago he had written a pallid little juvenile called Midnight and Jeremiah, which Walt Disney was interested in screening. North rewrote the story into a screen version for Disney and a novel (So Dear to My Heart) for Doubleday. Disney had the story tested by Sindlinger and North obligingly made the Workshop-indicated alterations (which he says were minor). Since then the book has sold 25,000 copies. North was "genuinely converted," he said. "People who scoff at poll-taking . . . are scoffing at democracy. . . . It is a humbling...
...SILENT PEOPLE SPEAK (397 pp.)-Robert St. John-Doubleday...
Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...
This week, to make sure that voters knew he was in dead earnest, he released a book that put Candidate Stassen's views on most major political issues down in printer's ink. It was appropriately entitled Where I Stand (Doubleday; $2). Some of the areas where Stassen took his stand...