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SINCERELY, WILLIS WAYDE (511 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown...
...Telecasters. in which Capp is both a small stockholder (less than 2%) and co-chairman of the proposed station's Public Affairs Committee. Lawyers for WHDH challenged Capp's fitness on the ground that he draws dirty pictures: therefore, he and his associates (including Novelist J. P. Marquand and Atlantic Monthly Editor Edward Weeks) should not get the TV permit...
...Point of No Return, by J. P. Marquand, a successful New York banker was forced by a business complication to return to his New England home town for the first time in 19 years. So home he went, dipping back into his shingles and salt-spray origins, reassessing his whole adult life and redreaming his youthful dreams before fully waking up to the present...
Pompey's Head is not nearly as good a book as the 1949 Marquand novel it parallels, but it is one of the big hits of the literary season. The movies (20th Century-Fox) have paid a $100,000 tribute to it, the Literary Guild is carrying it into hundreds of thousands of American living rooms, and for the sixth straight week it stands at the top of the fiction bestseller list...
...Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with...