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EPISTLE TO A GODSON by W.H. AUDEN 77 pages. Random House...
...going back, he recently explained, because "Growing older changes one's life. Suppose I had a coronary? Here [his Lower East Side apartment in Manhattan] I could lie helpless for days. In Oxford I shall be part of a community." Appropriately, much of Epistle to a Godson is devoted to growing old. One poem is called "Old People's Home." Two are written to doctors, dead or retiring, both part of the vanishing breed who know their patients personally and realize that medicine is an art, not a science...
There is a paperback called The Godmother, a movie (a retitled American version of a film by the respected French director Jean-Pierre Mel ville) called The Godson. Paramount is planning the official Puzo-scripted sequel to The Godfather - The Death of Michael Corleone. Also in the works is a movie version of The Valachi Papers, the memoirs of Cosa Nostra veteran Joe Valachi. There is even a Godfather game, in which players compete for control of the rackets...
...Died. Prince Franz Joseph Maria La-moral, 78, who as Duke of Thurn and Taxis was Germany's wealthiest nobleman and the patriarch of one of Europe's oldest families; of a heart attack; in Regensburg, West Germany. The godson of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef and titular head of the clan that introduced the international postal system to Europe in the 16th century, the prince presided over a billion-dollar financial empire that includes Germany's third biggest private bank and vast stretches of latifundia in Bavaria, Canada and Brazil. One of the last Continental nobles...
Being the house Democrat, albeit a conservative one, in Nixon's Cabinet has left Connally in a position of Byzantine ambiguity that even L.B.J.'s political godson may find complex. Undoubtedly ambitious for higher office, even the presidency, Connally continues to pay his dues as a Democrat and lunch with his party friends; recently he sent $500 to a Democratic fund raising dinner. He has also blandly predicted that Nixon will be re-elected in 1972 and increasingly asserted himself as an aggressive defender of the G.O.P. Administration's economics, the issue that could determine the outcome...