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...Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule...
...first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...
...Monty Memoir," which had Field Marshal Montgomery recalling those bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
ALAMEIN: A MONTY MEMOIR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Field Marshal Montgomery recalls, with the help of actual combat footage, how his Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the North African desert 25 years...
...armies he entertained became his postwar army of fans. Hope's early memoir, I Never Left. Home, sold 1,600,000 copies, royalties for which he turned over to the National War Fund. By 1949, his movies-Monsieur Beaucaire, The Paleface, Sorrowful Jones, My Favorite Brunette-had established him as Hollywood's top box-office draw. The next year, he decided to get into TV "before Milton Berle uses up all my material." NBC paid him $40,000 for his first special. That same year, he won a Peabody Award for The Quick and the Dead, a four...