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Blissful Obedience. The memory of Tojo is still keenly alive for his widow, who talked recently with TIME's S. Chang. "He is still watching over us," insisted Mrs. Tojo, who keeps his full-length portrait on the wall of the modest Tokyo home that they shared for many years. At 79, she is shrunken with age. Nonetheless, she readily recalls her life of blissful obedience to Tojo, whose keen mind and demanding ways won him the nickname "the Razor" from his subordinates...
...years to write (1924-1938), earned him exactly $1,280 in royalties. Twenty years after his shocking death he was recognized as the finest and blackest American humorist since Mark Twain went to his bitter end. Now, a young California English professor has at last accorded West his first full-length biography. Awed by his subject's brilliance and self-sealing reserve, Martin is too chary with his insights and interpretations. But he offers a thousand facts never printed before, and he places West just right as an apocalyptic passerby-one of the first in his crowded century...
...story of Scott and Zelda is one of the genuine literary legends of the century, recounted in several full-length biographies of Scott and mentioned in countless memoirs. Nancy Milford's book retraces all the familiar territory-the marathon drunks, the dips in public fountains-and adds poignant new testimony from diaries and letters concerning Zelda's schizophrenia. The book, though, is yet another proof that to know all is not to forgive...
...first full-length novel since 1955, Budd Schulberg makes a bold attempt to invade the thoughts of an aging revolutionary. Justo Moreno Suaárez is the provisional President of a nation's revolutionary government. A former professor of political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...
Yesterday, the Red and Blue exploded to a quick deck-length margin off the stakeout and had taken a full-length lead by the 500-meter mark. Harvard, which was trailing Navy as well at that time, was rowing at 36, and although that cadence was holding the Quakers' lead steady at one length, It was not moving the Crimson any closer...