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...Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara...
Novelist Bryan, John O'Hara's stepson, was educated at Yale, served in the Army during the peacetime occupation of Korea, and after his discharge was caught in the call-up of reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis. P. S. Wilkinson, the title character of this first novel, follows the same course. It is not good manners to inquire how much further the resemblance can be carried, because P. S. Wilkinson is tedious, self-pitying, unsufferably sensitive, and a prig. He did not enjoy his Army service in Korea. He also does not enjoy the company...
...when Man O' War died at the mature age of 30. Every six months, A.P. newspapers get a mimeographed list of additions and deletions; the notice circulated Jan. 1 of this year added Composer Benjamin Britten, Leonid Brezhnev, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy and Author John O'Hara, among others, plus a few revisions (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Frank Costello...
FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss ( 2 ) 3. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (7) 4. This Rough Magic, Stewart ( 4 ) 5. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara ( 5 ) 6. The Man, Wallace ( 3 ) 7. You Only Live Twice, Fleming ( 10 ) 8. Julian, Vidal ( 6 ) 9. Armageddon, Uris ( 9 ) 10. The Explorer, Keyes
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of O'Hara's short stories shows a consistent excellence seldom achieved by any writer. In his tales of well-off, middle-aged people, the novelist defines his spiritual habitat as clearly as Faulkner staked out Yoknapatawpha...