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...vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...
...among the Cardinals; incredibly, the New York Times's bestseller list carries his book in the nonfiction category, where it ranks tenth this week. Truth to tell (so to speak), The Final Conclave is a farrago of fact, speculation, misinformation and fiction. In somewhat the same vein, Rader uses silly, intrusive episodes that feature F.D.R. speaking at a revival, and Aimee Semple McPherson blathering in her boudoir, and dots his hero's career with heavyhanded parallels to the life of Billy Graham...
...known for a mean left and the other for a mean write, but last week Norman Mailer and Truman Capote were on their best behavior. Only bons mots and canapés were passed around at a Manhattan discothèque party celebrating the publication of Southern Baptist Dotson Rader's new book Miracle. To get in the spirit of things, Dotson and a friend sang hymns between disco numbers. "Why not? After all, television mixes apples with astronauts," opined Mailer, 55, who is writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle...
Brother Jimmy hugs and kisses his friends in public, and so, on occasion does his sister Baptist Faith Healer Ruth Carter Stapleton. At Manhattan's New York New York discotheque, she showed up for the 35th birthday party of Freelance Writer Dotson Rader who is researching an article about her for the New York Times Magazine. Stapleton; 46, danced a bit and inspired some affectionate smooching from the guest of honor, who finds her "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met." Stapleton also spent part of the evening in the disco vestibule with Rader...
...fact, his avowed ambition when he took over ITT was to double profits every five years; he was on schedule at the end of his first five-year plan, and he seems certain to make it again at the end of the second. Says General Electric Vice President Louis Rader, an ex-ITT man: "Geneen is like a man in a field with a lot of rocks in it. And he thinks there's a pot of gold under one of those rocks, so he's got to turn over as many...