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JEFFERSON SELLECK (303 pp.) - Carl Jonas-Little, Brown...
With his daughter's wedding reception going full tilt, and the expensive pop of champagne corks in his ears, Jefferson Selleck slinks off behind the potted palms to a corner sofa and collapses. Later that day, the family doctor gives his illness a medical name-"coronary occlusion." But Jeff Selleck, a successful Midwestern businessman, has more than heart trouble, he has a troubled heart. Slowed to an invalid's pace, Jeff begins to ask himself some embarrassing questions: "What does it all mean? Who am I? ... Why am I here, and where am I going...
...memory heap of five decades, and talks his flashback findings into a tape recorder. As Jeff's soliloquy unreels on the pages of Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail...
George A. Selleck, adviser to the Quaker group, also agreed that the plan was feasible and commented that "the teaching of religion can be as objective as any course...
...University Ministry to Students BAPTIST: Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton; CONGREGATIONAL: Rev. Leonard G. Clough; EPISCOPAL: Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Rev. John. W. Ellison; FRIENDS: Mr. George A. Selleck; JEWISH: Rabbi Harry Essrig; LUTHERAN: Rev. Edmund A. Steinile; METHODIST: Rev. Earle H. Furgeson, Rev. George T. Kennedy; PRESBYTERIAN: Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Rev. Alison R. Bryan; UNITARIAN: Rev. Robert...