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Braine's novel, in fact, presents a startling parallel to The Red and the Black. Like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's masterpiece, Hero Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a handsome young parvenu of considerable practical intelligence. Rising 25, he sits at his desk in the town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears...
...bestseller, Room at the Top, by John Braine, published in England just ten weeks ago, the third face of Lucky Jim emerges: that of the intellectual spiv ruthlessly making his luck. Joe Lampton is only a town clerk, but he knows what he wants-an Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room...
Married. Ferde Grofé (Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé), 59, American composer (Grand Canyon Suite)', and Mrs. Anna May Lampton, 43; he for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...Route. In Phoenix, Ariz., Howard Lampton advertised in the Phoenix Republic's "Lost" column: "Teeth, uppers near Avalon on South Central; lowers near Riverside ballroom...
...Yawps and Other Things" by W. J. Lampton. Henry Altemus. 192 pages. Price...