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...February poetry reading for an alleged "raw recital of filth"-was ending amid the sweet smell of vindication. A Manhattan judge who likes to "gamble on human beings" last week gambled on a suspended sentence for confessed Spouse-Assaulter Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's Manhattan publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons, was venturing a different sort of risk: release of the first collection of Mailer's scatological verse, under the title Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters...
...object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam; $3.95), to the legend of a girl reporter who came out of Dixon, Ill., to spend nearly 40 years as the queen of movie journalism-and, indeed, of all Hollywood...
Thursday: Gray cashmere. Six buttons down front. Pockets on left side. She dropped her pencil in the middle of Professor Putnam's lecture...
HOLY WEEK (541 pp.)-Louis Aragon -Putnam...
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...