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Since the initial review of Nabokov's Lolita [Sept. 1], TIME has scarcely missed an issue without a reference to that highly publicized parcel of pornography. The association proposed in your Dec. 29 Press section between comic-strip characters Popsie and Poteet and Nabokov's nymphet is apt, but where next will she appear? In National Affairs...
...thanks for the fine manner in which you handled the Poteet-Lolita-Popsie article. MILTON CANIFF New York City...
...role of Alice, the producers have cast Margery Glench--a bold step, since she is a grandmother, and known to be at least seventy-six. But she has triumphantly made good their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...
...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comedy of horrors whose aberrant love theme and brilliant writing make it a kind of fictional black valentine...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. Around the World with Auntie Maine, Dennis (3) 6. Exodus, Uris (7) 7. Victorine, Keyes (8) 8. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (6) 9. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (10) 10. The Rainbow and the Rose, Shute...