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...TRAVELS OF MAUDIE TIPSTAFF by Margaret Forster. 251 pages. Stein...
...author of Georgy Girl, deals again with the problems that nonbeautiful people have in finding love. After a lifetime of succumbing to her own prejudices, guarding her emotions, and scrubbing herself as free of the responsibilities of love as her home in Glasgow is of dirt, Maudie Tipstaff sets out at the age of 68 on a round of visits to her three grown children. She wants some sort of contact. But what she finds is the misery, selfishness and isolation that she had inspired in them when they were small...
Phial By Jury. In Pittsburgh, Criminal Court Tipstaff Oresto Parco tongue-lashed a jury, which had been locked up for two days pondering a murder case, for throwing water out the window onto a pedestrian...
LONG LOST FATHER-G. B. Stern- Knopf ($2). Carl Bellairs, manager but far from owner of the recherche Tipstaff Restaurant in London, was exceedingly good at his job. His personal charm (he was a gentleman, and moved in fairly high society) was partly accountable; his knowledgeable nose for details did the rest. Twice a week, for instance, he had his waiters' finger nails manicured; every night before dinner he held a hand inspection. Superb cook in his own right, he was always inventing new dishes; his knowledge of wines was exact, exacting. His hobby was "romance." On account...
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