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Among Behrman's great circle of literary and artistic friends were Gabriel Pascal, Somerset Maugham and Sir Max Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated...
EIGHT DAYS (370 pp.)-Gabriel Fielding-Morrow...
Eight Days is a novel in which conscience is a disease, the state of grace a beckoning Everest. It also happens to be a brilliant thriller, the kind of suspense story on which Graham Greene once had the patent. British Author Gabriel Fielding, himself a Catholic convert, has already proved (In the Time of Greenbloom; TIME, June 10, 1957) that he is one of the most skillful novelists writing in English. He is also a successful physician who knows what few physicians and equally few novelists seem to recognize: that each man's nature is a separate case, that...
...public conveniences of all kinds, it takes more and more workers to tend them. At the turn of the century manufacturing employed nearly 50% of all nonfarm workers. Today, the proportion is only 30%, and employment in the service industries is far more stable than in manufacturing. Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, onetime adviser to President Eisenhower and now chairman of Manufacturers Trust Co.'s finance committee: "The shift from manufacturing to services is comparable to the shift in the American economy in the 19th century from agriculture to manufacturing...
...Gabriel, Calif...