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...FIFTEENTH CENTURY COOKRY BOKE, compiled by John L. Anderson (92 pp.; Scribner; $4.50). This book (suitable for stopping only the lightest doors) might have been written by Chaucer's mother ("Take ye whyte of Eyroun a grete hepe"). But as it takes a half-hour to translate a recipe, it is not good for much except a wry smile. Blue-green jacket...
...VOICES OF GLORY (469 pp.)-Dovis Grubb-Scribner...
...HOBBY STORIES (159 pp.)-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner...
...unanimous vote, the Pulitzer Advisory Board handed the "distinguished biography" award ($500) to William A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), a meticulously impartial study of the Hearst publishing empire's progenitor. Instead of ratifying the board's choice, however, trustees of New York's Columbia University chose to overrule it by awarding no biography prize...
Wouk has altered the Wolfe legend with a startlingly original switch: Maxwell Perkins, the wise old Scribner editor who deftly chopped millions of words from Wolfe's brilliant but lardy first drafts, becomes Jeanie Green, a wise young editor. By day, she pencils the superfluous from Hawke's chapters; by night, she is his lady love. Not all night, of course; Wouk heroines are good girls...