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James Cain's previous novels (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce) gave readers more than a peek into the nature of sadism, masochism and homosexuality. His new novel, which he calls a "small morality tale," reads just like its predecessors, and claims to be about incest. In his introduction, Cain says: "I like it better than I usually like my work, and yet I have an impulse to account for it. ... The many fictions published about me recently bring me to the realization I must ... be less reticent about myself...
...Perfume evaporates, clothing--besides usually being out of taste--wears out," said Miss Sally Peek, Middlebury '50. "What we want is something we can get our hands...
...innkeeper's son, raised in the small town of Stolp, Pomerania, young Grosz spent more time over dime novels than art until he was 14. Then he managed to peek in on a playmate's pretty aunt as she was undressing. Says Grosz: "The image of the naked, Rubenesque woman pursued me and has continued to do so to this day." Grosz went on to art school, where he could peek as much as he liked...
...mannered Francis Dahl has never been syndicated. But for his collections of reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...clues to his master's condition were simply "[his] color, the tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize the types of people who encroached...