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...measure of national interest in this device is a sleeper bestseller titled How to Avoid Probate (Crown; $4.95). Written by Norman F. Dacey, who calls himself "America's best-known estate planner," the hefty paperback consists of a 50-page blast at lawyers and 300 pages of assorted forms that readers are urged to use in setting up revocable living trusts. In Dacey's version, a man puts most of his estate into life insurance, makes a bank trustee but directs the bank to invest the estate in a mutual fund. While the bank pays his heirs...
...most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
DEATH IN MIDSUMMER AND OTHER STORIES by Yukio Mishima. 181 pages. New Directions. $5.50. (Paperback...
Other members of the force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses...
Mother Night was first published as a 350 paperback in 1962. Its appearance now in hardcover, reversing the usual procedure, can be regarded as an amusement tax chargeable to the author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science and technology (Player Piano), philanthropy (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine). Here the target appears to be patriotism. From Nazi Germany, Howard W. Campbell Jr. broadcasts Hitler's propaganda to the West. Even his wife does not know that he is a U.S. counter-intelligence agent...