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...LIVED BACKWARD (461 pp.) - Malcolm Ross - Farrar, Straus...
Where is the U.S. going to find its next great tennis star? Watching the play of a pink-faced, cowlicked 16-year-old last week, Davis Cup Selection Committee Chairman James H. Bishop thought he had found the answer. As Hamilton Farrar ("Ham") Richardson of Baton Rouge, La. went about winning the National Junior championship with one of the most stylish all-court games seen this year, Jim Bishop pronounced him "the best [tennis] prospect in a quarter of a century...
...ADOLESCENTS (268 pp.)-Alberto Moravia-Farrar, Straus...
Writing in Fertility in Marriage (Farrar, Straus; $3), Dr. Louis Portnoy of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital put his faith in the basal temperature curve, which drops lower each month at about the time an ovum (egg) is released by the ovary, then rises sharply again, thus marking the most favorable time for conception. This is nonsense, snaps Dr. Edmond J. Farris-no M.D., but an anatomist (Ph.D.) who has trodden on many a medical toe with his hobnailed views...
...WOMAN OF ROME (433 pp.)-Albedo Moravia-Farrar, Sfraus...