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When a priest and a sinner become fond of each other, an account of their genial tilting is apt to make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer...
...Whose History oj the United States Navy in World War II has already reached eight volumes, with half a dozen more to come...
Composer Schuman decided on his baseball theme "in cold blood," while searching his mind for an "American" subject. Unlike many a new opera, his Casey is scheduled to be performed again. Producer Alfred (The Voice oj the Turtle] de Liagre Jr. expects to give it its Broadway innings next season...
Novelist Graham Greene has said of her Vipers oj Milan (a melodramatic yarn where sin triumphs over virtue), which he read as a child: "From that moment I began to write . . . It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject...
...mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back on George Gallup. Jeff Selleck's life is the stuff life insurance actuary tables are made...