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Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "The Chinese Civil War." Speakers: Harley F. MacNair, educator-author (The Real Conflict between China and Japan); Gunther Stein, foreign correspondent-author (The Challenge of Red China...
Died. Gertrude Stein, 72, grizzled matriarch of the stuttering sentence ("A rose is a rose is a rose") whose literary doubletalk was often as confusing as amusing, onetime medical student, connoisseur of modern art, author (Portraits and Prayers, Wars I Have Seen), playwright (Four Saints in Three Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma...
BREWSIE AND WILLIE (114 pp.)-Gertrude Stein-Random House...
...always in my way a Civil War veteran," confesses Gertrude Stein-and, indeed, her new book about World War II veterans has much of the quaint, rheumy, talky quality of old soldiers. It is, of course, superimposed upon the girlish extravagances with which Author Stein has perplexed the English-speaking world for a generation...
Baby Talk. Expatriate Author Stein talked with scores of G.I.s in France ("they made me come all over patriotic"), and Brewsie and Willie is a report on those conversations. Many of them sound as though they had been fabricated by epigrammatic babies in a precocious nursery. Samples...