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...VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD (409 pp.) - Hamilton Basso - Doubleday...
...View from Pompey's Head, by Hamilton Basso, a successful New York lawyer is forced by a legal complication to return to his Southern home town for the first time in 15 years. So home he goes, dipping back into his stucco and magnolia origins, reappraising his whole adult life, and raising the shades of youthful loves before finally drawing the shade upon his past...
...Pompey's Head is not nearly as good a book as the 1949 Marquand novel it parallels, but it is one of the big hits of the literary season. The movies (20th Century-Fox) have paid a $100,000 tribute to it, the Literary Guild is carrying it into hundreds of thousands of American living rooms, and for the sixth straight week it stands at the top of the fiction bestseller list...
...news was the civil war raging between Pompey and Caesar. There was a sharp cartoon about Cicero, whose indecision in the crisis was lampooned in a caption, "Otium Cum Dignitate" (inaction with dignity). There had been strange doings at the Circus Maximus: two gladiators got tangled up with the umpires and decapitated one of them. The weather forecast: "Frigidus." Such was the state of the world last week as reported in Britain's only Latin newspaper, Acta Diurna (Daily Register...
...town fathers put their heads together, then their dollars. A corporation was formed which sold $9,000 in shares at $25 each to the people of Fabius and Pompey. The corporation bought a house and remodeled it. Dr. Brudny moved in, with the understanding that if he still likes the place after a year, he may buy the house from the corporation. If not, he may move out, and Fabius-Pompey will look for a new medical...