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...celebrities: Sere tse's moderate, anti-Communist Dorn-krag party won last year's elections handily over the rabid black-nationalist party of Phillip Matante; Ruth's relief work in the kraals and mud huts of the natives has won her the affectionate title of Mwa Rona (Our Mother...
...CHERRY IN THE MARTINI by Rona Jaffe. 191 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Best of Everything was rated just about the worst of anything when it first attempted to cram Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer and Joan Crawford into Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel about girls who get their jobs through the New York Times and their kicks from Modern Romances. Now that it's dated, it's too funny to miss...
...Rona Jaffe's bestselling first novel about nubile young career girls aprowl in Manhattan, The Best of Everything, was written to the specifications of the late Film Producer Jerry Wald. God knows who is responsible for this new collection of short stories in which Rona's girls suffer from serendipity in reverse-they have the gift of finding unpleasant things and situations not sought for. When these urban waifs encounter an attractive man, he's already married; if single, a homosexual; if both available and heterosexual, he is metaphorically dead...
...long as the action is confined to Madcap Melba charming a cop out of giving her a parking ticket, or a gangster into surrendering a restaurant phone, the story is readable enough and lively. But Rona Jaffe intends more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to morose dissections of her emotions, ranging from jealousy of Melba to frustration about the men who get away. She has a strange preoccupation with necrophilia. When one romance collapses, the mousy girl laments that "social graces are dead, shyness is dead, chivalry is dead, game playing is dead, necking is dead...