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...Journey into Night. To one performance came some church-sponsored teen-age girls. Grownups accompanying them were shocked at O'Neill's dialogue-no four-letter words, but a drizzle of expletives such as "goddam whore!" When they protested, Baylor's President Abner McCall ordered Baker to delete the profanity as "not in good taste for a church-related university...
...leaven its heavy political diet, the New Leader has enlarged its critical departments. And thanks to a sprucing-up by Designer Herb Lubalin, who overhauled McCall's and the Saturday Evening Post for fat fees but remade the New Leader for nothing, it now boasts eye-catching black-and-white covers and line drawings that few of its rivals can match...
Joseph Heller's Catch-22, the first novel by this 39-year-old escapee from McCall's promotion department, is powerful, clumsy, angry and comical, somewhat in the manner one would expect of a half-grown rhinoceros. The author seems only occasionally and precariously in control of this jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed...
From her Manhattan hospital bed in mid-October, the late Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her last column for McCall's Magazine. Titled "Mrs. Roosevelt's Christmas Sampler," it listed the holiday customs she loved best. Her favorite carol: Silent Night; her favorite Christmas benevolence: "To invite a stranger from a foreign country, who would be alone, to our Christmas dinner"; her favorite Christmas cards: "Adlai Stevenson's beautifully illuminated messages'"; her favorite ornament: "A little angel that has topped our family tree since my children were babies"; and her favorite Christmas recipe: a bowl of eggnog, laced...
Lurid Headliners. To the standard you-are-there-under-the-couch voyeurism, Robbins has added carefully observed studies of Mike Hammer's biff-bam psychopathology and Cash McCall's high-finance inside-dopesterism. But the ingredient in the mix that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course...