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FATE IS THE HUNTER, by Ernest K. Gann. Author Gann was an airline and Air Trans port Command pilot before he became a bestselling storyteller (The High and the Mighty], and he writes convincingly in this excellent memoir of why he quit flying-his growing belief, supported by all too much chilling evidence, that he had pressed his luck too far. Not recommended for above-sea-level reading...
...most unlikely source, Lloyd George has been accorded a highly engaging biography. Richard Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 72, has succeeded in a most difficult biographical enterprise -to write of a famous father without being a bore, a dupe of his fame or indulging in Oedipal iconoclasm. Part memoir, part history and part character study, the book is written with a_ wry acceptance of the comedy inherent in all consanguinity. Clearly, Richard Lloyd George was that rare wise child who knows his own father. F.D.R. and Churchill will be lucky indeed if they are as well served from within their...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Following the recent NBC memoir, Will Rogers takes another bow in a filmed biography...
...gossipy memoir in McCall's magazine, Dwight Eisenhower's former Cabinet Secretary Robert Gray revealed that the tart tongue of ex-Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams did not always spare even Ike himself. Adams, wrote Gray, was inclined to be particularly waspish over the President's habit of slipping away in the afternoons ("Good God, is he playing golf again?") and at occasional presidential demands for ultra-swift action ("What does he think I am, a goddam gazelle...
SONS AND LOVERS. Director Jack Cardiff's translation of D. H. Lawrence's part novel, part memoir of his youth in a Midlands mining town sets the theater roaring with a proletarian rage to live...