Word: holte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAVAGE STATE by Georges Conchon. 222 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Some U.S. welfare groups have actually come to grips with the half-caste problem. In the past ten years, 5,670 mixed-blood children have been adopted by families in the U.S. through such groups as the Holt Adoption Program, the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Child Placement Service. But the vast majority of these children are the offspring of white G.I.s. Finding foster parents for Negro-fathered children is much harder. With that in mind, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation began operating in Korea just last month. Its initial hopes are modest: to provide funds directly to mothers...
Director Seth Holt predictably but expertly flicks the finger of suspicion from boy to nursemaid and back again, and his choice cast can make even the sillier dialogue sound plausible. Still, Nanny's terrors remain doggedly low key, partly because every audience knows too well that an old spook of Bette's stature seldom leaves her dirty work to anyone else...
...Received a commemorative copy of a new book (Magna Carta, by Oxford University Professor James C. Holt) from Sir Patrick Dean, the British ambassador, and took the occasion to Lyndon-ize history: "The Magna Carta has always meant much to all Americans. The success of the lords who, shall we say, reasoned together with King John 750 years ago inspired the Americans who tried the same on King George III 189 years ago from Philadelphia. The outcome was good or bad-depending on the point of view...
IVORY HAMMER 2: THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S. 256 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $12.50. For art lovers who like to look at the price tags too, this book is just the ticket. The annual report of Sotheby's, Britain's venerable auction house, which has been a British institution for years, has graduated into a profusely illustrated volume worthy of deposit on any drawing-room table. Ivory Hammer 2 is the second annual report to be published in the U.S. It reprises the 1963-64 season, during which Sotheby's knocked down an unprecedented $37 million...