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FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. The Group, McCarthy (2) 3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6) 5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4) 6. The Martyred, Kim (5) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8) 8. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7) 9. The Fanatic, Levin 10. The Night of the Generals, Kirst...
...delight of photographers, Lady Bird donned a missileman's hard hat at a jaunty angle while Center Director Wernher von Braun clapped on his own head a Texas-style hat the President had given him on a recent visit to the L.B.J. ranch. At a cafeteria-style luncheon, she picked up the check for 59 of her visiting Alabama "kissin' cousins." She could hardly keep them straight, and small wonder. After all, her Alabama grandmother on her father's side had been married four times and had 13 children. She asked "Uncle John" Patillo, of Billingsley...
Prout, King, Funkenstein, and Dean von Stade are jointly seeking steps to reduce the number of unsuccessful applicants. In addition to the counselling services of Prout and Funkenstein, who advise rejected candidates about further plans, several studies are being planned to supply needed information...
Though he is Austria's most eminent novelist, Von Doderer did not become widely known in the U.S. until 1961 with The Demons, the half-million-word novel of Austria in the '20s that occupied him off and on for 25 years. In Every Man a Murderer, written in the late '30s, Von Doderer returns to the same time and place. His fatalistic thesis is plainly stated in the first lines: "Everyone's childhood is plumped down over his head like a bucket. The con tents of this bucket are at first unknown...
...study of mental collapse, Every Man is often impressive. But Novelist Von Doderer weakens his book by overloading it with biographical and clinical detail. The result is more case history than novel: the fever chart of childhood has dictated a whole life...