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...ruckus began four years ago when acerbic John Gordon, 68, chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy, pronounced it "about the filthiest book I've ever read...
...part of the matter: the New York publishing world-which is small to the point of claustrophobia-knew all about Lolita. It had been published (in English) by Paris' Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...
...only weak spot in the cast is the trio of whores. Olympia Dukasis, the most important of them, is better than her colleagues, but no one of them twitters through her part with much distinction...
Among the 131 resolutions published last week with the encyclical letter of the 1958 Lambeth conference was a report on "The Family in Contemporary Society." made by a 38-man committee, headed by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr. of Olympia. Wash. Highlights...
Theoretically, every doctor has a physician in attendance 24 hours a day, i.e., by long-standing tradition, any doctor will treat any other doctor free of charge. But Dr. Charles E. McArthur of Olympia, Wash. noted that standards of physicians' medical care (except in university hospitals and a few private clinics) are among the nation's lowest-because of neglect. One big reason for such neglect, suggested Dr. McArthur, chairman of the A.M.A.'s section on general practice, is that smalltown G.P.s have limited access to specialists. And because each one feels that he "lives...