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...this Williams zealously eschews. He announces he will do so in the foreword to his book: "Nine-tenths of our lives is well forgotten in the living. Of the part that is remembered, the most had better not be told; it would interest...
...Winter wrote the foreword for Hubbard's bestselling book, became medical director of the Dianetics Research Foundation, and tried to guide it along what he considered sound scientific lines. Now, in A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (Julian Press; $3.50), he thinks he made a mistake. Founder Hubbard, says a disillusioned Dr. Winter, became more & more "absolutistic and authoritarian"; the foundation became less & less interested in research, more interested in spreading the word. Last winter Winter flounced out. He was finding orthodox dianetics "ritualistic and sterile...
...sounds and looks evil." But it went down so satisfactorily that Ross got an idea: Dr. Jordan ought to collaborate on a cookbook for ulcer victims. The result, published this week: Good Food for Bad Stomachs (Doubleday; $2.95), by Dr. Jordan and Recipe-Maker Sheila Hibben, with a laudatory foreword by Ross himself...
...they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio...
Author Baldwin has tackled a compelling theme, but the bestselling writing habits of a lifetime will not down. In a few final, banal pages, Paul becomes a mature man, a whole minister, and gets his girl besides (Alcoholics Anonymous has straightened out his dipso brother). In a foreword, Author Baldwin hopes that at least "one reader" will experience "pleasure in reading Paul's story." On the record (some 10,000,000 sales of her novels in all editions), she can't miss...