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Another Ambition. Despite success in her chosen career, Sheilah Graham played her most satisfying role during the three years (1937-40) she spent in Hollywood with F. Scott Fitzgerald, then at the end of his tether. With Ghostwriter Gerold Frank, Miss Graham told that story in the bestselling Beloved Infidel (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958). "I was never a mistress," writes Miss Graham firmly in her current book, whose very title pays tribute to the depth of that experience. "I was a woman who loved Scott Fitzgerald for better or worse until he died...
...language of television commercials. But she is wary of puns and uses them with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden...
...Books by Pete Martin and Gerold Frank. These autobiographers occupy a comfortable limbo between spook status and live authorship, and get prominent bylines for their as-told-to confessions of the tabloid famous. But preconfessed bunko is nevertheless bunko. And even expert spirit writing makes all autobiographies sound alike...
...Gabor: My Story Written for Me by Gerold Frank (World; $3.95). From Hungary to satiety, via Conrad Hilton, George Sanders and Porfirio Rubirosa. If this sentence were not the book's last, it would be fair warning: "Who knows, in this life of ours, what is really true and what is enchanting make-believe...
...GEROLD BAUMANN Indianapolis