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Harry Golden, social critic, humorist, essayist and author of the leading nonfiction bestseller Only in America (World; $4). tactfully withdrew from the scheduled CBS-TV program on integration that brought him to Manhattan, and confessed that he was indeed an ex-convict. That done, Golden flew back to Charlotte, N.C. to pace his house with a cigar in one hand and a glass of beer in the other, and wonder what would happen when his friends and readers learned that he had served three years and eight months for mail fraud in the early...
...talk more sense to the South on the subject of race relations than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...
Lars Ulvenstam, a Swedish essayist and journalist, saw a gradual increase of concern for culture in Swedish society...
Cocktail Time ("A Novel about a Novel"), the latest of Wodehouse's 76 books, shares with its predecessors the Wodehousian characteristic of being strictly up to date in time and half a century behind in taste. Its characters display, as always, what Essayist John W. Aldridge calls ''the miraculous capacity of the human body to operate without the assistance of any mental powers whatever." Among the 15-odd starters...
...published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years ago who wrote...