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...pillar of the mass publishers is the Stratemeyer Syndicate in East Orange. N.J., a fiction factory employing from 10 to 20 free-lance writers around the nation. Founded in 1907 by the late Edward Stratemeyer. who himself wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms, the syndicate's stable of interchangeable writers endlessly creates new volumes in such series as Tom Swift Jr., The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Happy Hollisters, The Dana Girls, The Bobbsey Twins, Honeybunch and Norman. These cannot be found on most library shelves; yet children always manage to have them in hand, and they sell...
Couple Four personifies the steady and sane Joe and Jane (Pat Hingle and Barbara Rush)-he works hard in a hardware store; she is a well-shaped pillar of the church. But are they happy? No, the neighbors drive them crazy...
...divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father of four, community pillar, model of rectitude. Summarized his faculty dean: "Everyone is entitled to his own convictions, but nobody can make me believe Guimaraes is a liar or insane...
...were the latest Parisian perfume. But as she prattles of sin and piety in the quiet of Arthur Winner's garden, her innuendoes loose the first of the novel's rockslides of revelation. On the very day of his first wife's death, this pillar of respectability, this devotee of reason, Arthur Winner, had embarked on an adulterous affair with Marjorie Penrose, wife of his crippled friend. In flashback ignominy, Winner relives their mute animal couplings, the gross infidelity of "two cheap sneaks." With this recollection the ordeal of Arthur Winner has begun...
...Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything you would like to say to help disincriminate yourself? Is the whole story really that bad?" O'Rourke declined to answer, but after the questioning was over, he stepped outside the Senate caucus room, braced himself against a marble pillar and burst into tears...