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...should be the duty of book juries to reward the all-out professional author and not to dig around and rescue a writer from obscurity, said Novelist John O'Hara a few years ago. "I don't believe that there are better writers than Hemingway, Faulkner, Cozzens, and me pining away in Brown County, Indiana, or in an espresso joint on Third Street, or on the faculty of East South Dakota A. & M." Last week, U.S. book publishers took cognizance of O'Hara's benediction for professionalism and tapped three veteran writers...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (1) √ 4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (4) √ 5. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (5) √ 6. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (6) √ 7. Midcentury, Dos Passos 8. The Key, Tanizaki (10) √ 9. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (7) √ 10. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne (8) NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. Who Killed Society? Amory (2) 3. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (4) √ 4. The White Nile, Moorehead (7) 5. Japanese Inn, Statler (6) 6. The Waste Makers, Packard...
...Lorenz Hart was at his pithy best, and Richard Rodgers had not yet flowered into his fluffy and roseate bloom. The final issue of their union was Pal Joey, the story of a down and out entertainer, based on some stories by John O'Hara. The show itself is positively charming--combining Hart's wistful but razor sharp wit, with a musical sophstication that Rodgers was never again to achieve. Drumbeats and Song's production last night took advantage of all of Joey's heady potential. It was slick, sexy, delightfully witty--all in all, great...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (4) 3. Advise and Consent, Drury (2) / 4. To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee (3) / 5. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (6) / 6. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (5) / 7. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne / 8. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene 9. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) / 10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...
...Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara...