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...original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer...
...would be a very good thing if they ever move up here," Mercer said yesterday. "If they do decide to move, I'd like to have them look us over. We've got a lot of good land up here," he said. Mercer, a resident of Peterborough for over 40 years, is the owner of a bustling automobile agency on Main Street...
RACHEL CADE (320 pp.)-Charles Mercer-Putnam...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...
...Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner, based on Al Capp's comic strip, with songs by Johnny Mercer; Pay the Piper by George (Damn Yankees, The Pa jama Game) Abbott, based on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. Three other musicals will star such topnotch musicomedy personalities as Nancy Walker, Judy Holliday, Bert Lahr...