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...accurately known, a recounting of such scurrilities? The answer is a joyous and admirably unedifying yes. Capote, who died in 1984 "of everything . . . of living," as Bandleader Artie Shaw said at his funeral, was always his own best character. He lived an outrageous life, mostly against society's grain, and invented gaudy lies to pad out the occasional dull spots (an early dust-jacket blurb had him dancing on a Mississippi riverboat). Author Clarke, a TIME contributor, sorts out the nonsense, the brilliance and the bitchiness of Capote's life in what is the liveliest and rowdiest literary biography...
...estimated 200 titles, all in English: a version of Stormy Weather that describes British ships "sinking all the time." According to Drummer Freddie Brocksieper, 75, the players joined the band for purely practical reasons. Says he: "No jazz musician could be a believing Nazi. It was completely against the grain. We played to save our lives...
...Walter, the PBH coordinator, warns against too much sympathy for inmates. "You've got to take it all with a grain of salt," she says. "It's easy to fall into the trap of their sad stories, because they're all sad. But you've got to remember that every one of them did something wrong...
...Soviet Union: "They found that we're not the only fountain of knowledge." Since 1972, Soviet trade with the West has surged from $7 billion to $41 billion. But American companies accounted for only $2 billion of that business last year, and more than half the U.S. trade involved grain sales...
...shopping cartful of other American consumer goods may be on the way. RJR Nabisco is seeking a Soviet partner to make its snacks and cookies, and wants to market its cigarettes as well. Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland, a longtime exporter of grain to the Soviet Union, hopes to produce vegetable oils, starches and sweeteners with a Soviet partner. The company may also take part in a Soviet plan to increase the annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will...