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Perhaps the most interesting fact about this limpid novel is that the author is Ginger Rogers' current husband. "The sordid realism of this book," he warns leeringly in the foreword, "may generate a feeling of shock." Promises, promises...
...dealing with youth crime, the Chicago Police Department's official policy reflects a sociologically enlightened position acceptable to most critics. The foreword to the Youth Division Manual states, for example, that "Youth crime is increasing steadily in consequence of the expanding youth ratio of our population . . . Positive police action is necessary . . . Of great importance in this effort is the need for the police and particularly the Youth Division officer, to understand the social, cultural, and economic forces underlying the disposition to crime and to use this knowledge for its prevention...
These two books clearly belong in the second category. In the U.S., writes Playwright Arthur Miller in his foreword, short stories are "ranked more or less as casual things at the lower end of the scale of magnitude, like bungalows in the architectural world." Then why bother? Miller supplies his own answer: The short story is a form in which a writer can be as concise as his subject requires him to be. For a playwright, he says, the short story offers "a vessel for those feelings which, unelaborated, are truer, and yet for one reason or another...
...responded to his success by leaving the U.S., where he lived until 1960, to take up a voluntary exile in a hotel in Montreux, Switzerland-as near as he can get to the source of his memories, as near as he wants to get. In a foreword to this splendid hymn to his past, he suggests that one day he will write a sequel, Speak On, Memory, covering the years spent in America...
...pivotal interview was the one with Mrs. Kennedy. For more than ten hours during two days in April 1964, Manchester taped her recollections at her Georgetown home in Washington. In his foreword he wrote: "Mrs. Kennedy asked but one question before our first taping session. 'Are you just going to put down all the facts, who ate what for breakfast and all that, or are you going to put yourself in the book, too?' I replied that I didn't see how I could very well keep myself out of it. 'Good,' she said emphatically...