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...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...
...OTHER PLACE, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SAME SORT, by J. B. Priestley (265 pp.; Harper; $3). In these nine short stories, Britain's robust, many-sided man of letters takes a series of ordinary Englishmen right out of this world. In one story, an engineer named Harvey Lindfield-lonely, bored and bewildered by the drab meanness of life in a manufacturing town-gingerly walks through a library door into The Other Place. There he basks in sunshine and fellowship among the townspeople with whom he used to be shy and awkward but who are now transformed into...
...often happens in the best-regulated societies, Great Britain is currently undergoing a spate of court cases over obscenity in books. Last week seven of the nation's bestselling authors (including Somerset Maugham, Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley) took recourse to that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
...mystified (in the Aug. 30 issue) by the "senseless" atrocities of the four supposedly well-brought-up boys from Brooklyn? In an earlier issue of TIME [Aug. 9], the English author, J. B. Priestley, in his comments on the new sadism, explains the matter quite thoroughly, except that the British do not make a cult of masculinity, as we do ... In America, however, grandmaws and tiny tots alike throng to the movies, where filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise...
...recent years, says Priestley, both Britain and the U.S. have been deluged with books that "describe, with a gusto missing from the rest of their narratives, scenes that descend to the depths of atrocity. Moreover, they ask not only for our interest, but for our admiration. It is not just the villains who smash noses, gouge eyes, and beat people to a jelly; the heroes do it too, and indeed are handier at it than the villains...