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FICTION 1 -Centennial, Michener (2 lastweek) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (1) 3-Something Happened, Heller (3) 4-The Ebony Tower, Fowles (6) 5-Lady, Tryon (4) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...
...Lady,, Tryon...
...Lady, Tryon...
Little Nipper. We wouldn't have known much about Lady if it hadn't been for that little nipper "Woody" Woodhouse who lived across the green from Lady. Woody was eight when he first took a shine to her. But he was the one Mr. Tryon chose to tell Lady's secret story, and as time went by he sure was a burden on her and the rest of us. Always digging into her closets and chifforobes, eavesdropping and peeking into folks' windows. More than a few of us wanted to dump him in our picturesque...
...than it's worth. It was, after all, only a case of the butler's doing it. Over the years, whenever Lady felt bad or Woody was hot on a new clue, you could count on the rest of us catching grief. To dramatize such things, Mr. Tryon scheduled a hurricane, a flood and the Dutch elm disease. Not to mention yearly blizzards of cliches. But the wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer, they say," she once opined. On another of many "memorable" occasions, she tossed...