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...SECOND-HAND LIFE by Charles Jackson. 337 pages. Macmillan...
...problem drinker. He has been a problem novelist ever since. The Fall of Valor (1946) was about a homosexual, The Outer Edges (1948) about paranoiacs. This one is about a nymphomaniac, which ought to give it a somewhat more eclectic appeal than the previous two. Trouble is, A Second-Hand Life is more a case history than a novel. Winifred Grainger can't take her mind off sex or, specifically, the male sex organ. But all she does is talk about it to Harry Harrison, her confidant and lifelong friend, who has a problem...
...style with Day-Glo paints. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding was gauche enough to wear a suit and tie to a celebration in Golden Gate Park, and was suspected of being a "narco" (narcotics agent). Malcolm Carter, TIME'S Stanford University stringer, did much better with a second-hand kelly-green flannel shirt and a string of Philippine seed beads. Washington Correspondent Philip Mandelkorn managed to get by in ordinary sports clothes, but he found reporting difficult. Entering a hippie guru's pad "was like jumping into a cool pool on a hot summer day. I just...