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...consistent. The tone has to do with sex--sloppy sex. If there is a puddle school of Cambridge photography, there seems also to be a crotch school of Cambridge writing. The old pendulum of emphasis has swung with a vengeance in the past few decades from Victorian modesty to paperback love; it has not been a desirable move. A passage like, "I learned my first great lesson in love one afternoon when I came upon my mother curled in a corner of a basement plugging herself with an oiled corncob" (from Joe Porter's The Last Muscle) makes one suspect...
...parent pacifier by putting him on the cover, and the doctor recalled his own babe-in-arms days. "Our parents were strict but very close to us," he wrote. So what had Mom, now 86, thought of her son's baby bible, which has sold 16 million paperback copies? "I was greatly relieved," he confessed, "when she said, 'Benny, I think it's quite sensible...
...Kennedy-Nixon campaign, Lasky was assigned to write a review of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s pro-Kennedy book, Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? He became so angry at Schlesinger's partisan arguments that he expanded his review into a 300-page anti-Kennedy paperback. Still incensed, Lasky has now enlarged and updated that book...
...Fahey put his diary in a trunk and went to work in Waltham's sanitation department. Not until 1960 did he read a paperback reprint of Admiral Halsey's Story, by Joe Bryan III. Then Fahey made a fair copy of his own diary and sent it to Bryan. He also sent it to Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who sent it to Houghton Mifflin with a gracious foreword...
Rucksacks of orchids to TIME for titillating transatlantic travelers-to-be with its bright story on Mr. Frommer's paperback. It rings cash registers for Michelin, Fielding's, and all of us peripatetic toilers...