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...championships-sixth in world competition, and first to be held in the U.S.-drifted through three weeks of score-tallying before individual victors could be determined: 23-year-old ex-Paratrooper Jim Arender of Tulsa, Okla., for the men; Mrs. Muriel Simbro of Van Nuys, Calif., for the women. The former champions were both Czechs. The U.S. women's team was a surprise winner of the women's team accuracy event, and the men's team, which finished a dismal fourth last time, was second only to Czechoslovakia. 6.440 points to 6,390. Russia finished third...
Redivorced. By Tobacco Magnate Richard Joshua Reynolds, 56: Muriel Marston, 48, his third wife, who appealed an earlier divorce and demanded a $6,000,000 settlement, but now loses even her previous $12,500-a-year alimony; on grounds of mental cruelty (he testified that she salted his salt-free food, blew smoke in his face while he was trying to quit smoking); in Darien...
...PRIME OF Miss JEAN BRODIE, by Muriel Spark (187 pp.; Llppincott; $3.95). Knowledgeable readers of Muriel Spark's novels admire such crystalline structures of malice as Memento Mori and The Ballad oj Peckham Rye partly for the economy with which they are built. Avoiding bravura writing as she would a vulgar display of pound notes, this Scotswoman sits composedly among her characters, goading them by silence and an infrequent equivocal smile to disclose their sins. Rarely does the exposure require more than 200 pages, and at the end of a Muriel Spark novel, most readers find themselves wondering...
Totville, 1961. The Christmastide verse for the young is clean and scientific, but lacks the old-fashioned zing of the real thing. Poet Muriel Rukeyser's I Go Out (Harper; $2.95) makes a sort of go at it in verse about a day in the life of a city child...
Martin and Muriel Cantor, who live in The Bronx, N.Y., have three children of their own; in past years they have had a total of five foster children, including three who live with them now. Says Mrs. Cantor of the twins whom they reared for 13 months: "They had come in diapers with clouded minds. They walked out like prince and princess. Our losing them was my great sorrow, but their return to their parents was my great victory...