Word: excerpts
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...constitute a respectable issue. Such a glance evidently was not taken. For with the exception of its single solid offerings, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, by F. M. Kimball, the present issue slips downgrade as the reader works his way toward the back, reaching its literary nadir in an excerpt from a novel in progress entitled The Sons of Darkness...
...that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time and the River...
...report to the stockholders. Bing, besought by the Satevepost, has dictated his memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...
...slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel, it is well-told and at times exciting, but it lacks orientation; one wants to know what came previously and what comes afterward...
...however, Henry was getting weary of the swim, and he tried to trouble the fashionable waters with his first play, Love in Several Masques, a deft little comedy of London manners. An excerpt from the conversation of a Fielding...