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MURDER AND BLUEBERRY PIE, by Frances and Richard Lockridge (192 pp.; Lippincott; $2.95), sets some highly improbable booby traps for the Lockridges' nice, likable people in their quaintly respectable Connecticut town. The authors are such old hands at making their characters and backgrounds believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status...
MEMENTO MORI (224 pp.)-Muriel Spark -Lippincott...
DEVIL BY THE SEA (224 pp.)-Nina Bawden-Lippincott...
...significant fact about the new quad is that the University is committed to find space in the "alternative" for everyone who is interested. Wilson has already outgrown the part of Commons originally allotted to it, and another hall is now being converted for its use. Dean Lippincott says that if demand exceeds the space in the new Quad, more buildings will be built or existing space converted to meet the needs. It is conceivable that in the future--say in ten years--a majority of Princeton will be living in such Quad arrangements, though no-one is willing to hazard...
...Quad will not be a copy of a Harvard House or a Yale College, Goheen and Lippincott insist. Princeton plans to have no Master or faculty supervisor running the installation, and has no intention of decentralizing its academic or disciplinary administration down to a Quad level. Faculty members will live in the Quad and eat in the dining room, but they will not have any formal responsibilities. But Goheen and Lippincott hope that this informal student-faculty contact will make for a "closer interpenetration of academic and non-academic life...