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Best Sellers FICTION 1. A Shade of Difference, Drury (1, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. Ship of Fools, Porter (3) 4. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins (7) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (6) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (4) 7. The Prize, Wallace (5) 8. The Thin Red Line, Jones (8) 9. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (9) 10. The Reivers, Faulkner (10) NONFICTION 1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 2. Silent Spring, Carson (1) 3. The Rothschilds, Morton (3) 4 My Life in Court, Nizer (4) 5! O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson...
...financial status has always been kept pretty much a closed bankbook. But last week the public got at least a peek into the President's purse -and it appeared pretty full. Working on information provided him by the Kennedy family and making some educated guesses, Washington Correspondent Fletcher Knebel wrote a seven-article series about the President's finances for the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Tribune. Knebel estimated Kennedy's worth at about $10 million, thanks mostly to trust funds set up years ago by Joseph P. Kennedy for all his children. He revealed that...
...Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey...
There is a rush on inside novels about big-time politics in Washington, and each author tries to outdo the last in dreaming up fantastic political skulduggery that has never occurred and never will. The latest to climb on the badwagon are the writing teams of Burdick-Wheeler and Knebel-Bailey. Their target is the Pentagon. According to their spicy exposés, it is a den of some of the most hideous monsters this side of Cyclops' cave...
...Seven Days in May. They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice President, for instance, talks like a Greenwich Village grocer. "You want Ivy League manners...