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...Harry Truman's 75th birthday (see PEOPLE), Lyndon landed carefully. Massachusetts, after all, is the nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at Boston's airport, later introduced him to 800 diners in the cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United States, but I see no reason why he should take a demotion." Smiling broadly, Johnson bandied...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
POINTS OF VIEW (284 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
What happens to very old writers when they stop writing? In the case of W. Somerset Maugham, now 85, he just goes right on writing. Over the past ten years he has regularly announced his retirement, and now he once more informs the world that his new book, Points of View, is "absolutely my last." A few critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift...
Among Behrman's great circle of literary and artistic friends were Gabriel Pascal, Somerset Maugham and Sir Max Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated...