Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first four now being mailed out indicate the kind of choice we have made: The American Character, by D. W. Brogan; The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene; Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech, and The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert L. Heilbroner. In addition to a positioning preface by the editors of TIME, often as not we hope to incorporate a specially written introduction by a critic or authority in the field, or by the author himself...
...example, here is Graham Greene, introducing the book that "gives me more satisfaction than any I have written...
Moss had hoped for rain ("I do better in the wet"), but a bright sun warmed the crowd of 72,000. Settling into the cockpit of his low-slung, pale green Lotus, Moss joshed Rival Graham Hill, who was piloting a faster BRM: "Don't try too hard, Graham, or you'll blow it up." He screwed in his earplugs, snapped his helmet strap and adjusted his goggles. "Hey," he yelled to Mechanic Tony Robinson. "Where's my chewing gum?" Robinson handed him a stick. Moss waved. "Here goes," he said. Then, exhaust crackling fiercely, he roared...
...35th, as he approached St. Mary's Corner-a difficult right-and-left jog in the road-the limit was passed. Said Moss, before the race: "With luck, you can take St. Mary's at 90 m.p.h." Recalled Graham Hill, afterward: "As we went into St. Mary's, Stirling was coming up on me at about 110 m.p.h. on the outside. In the mirror I saw him coming up fast, and then he just kept going straight." Moss's Lotus hurtled across 150 yds. of grass, plowed head on into an 8-ft.-high embankment, spun...
TWENTY-ONE STORIES, by Graham Greene (245 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Any new book by Graham Greene, the British alchemist skilled at transmuting complex metaphysical problems of guilt and God into goose flesh, is a literary event. But Twenty-One Stories is also a tribute to publishing ingenuity. The present bouquet of Greenery has been compiled simply by taking a 1949 collection called Nineteen Stones, throwing out one, and adding three. The old stories are still able to trouble the sleep. The three new ones are predictably grim, and well up to the author's average-one good, one excellent...