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PEANUTS JUBILEE by Charles M. Schulz. 222 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $29.95. Good grief, good old Charlie Brown is 25 years old! The birthday reminder may be a little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose reminiscences, Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz follows his charges from their days as Saturday Evening Post cartoons to the halcyon epoch of Snoopy as the Red Baron, Lucy as a 5? psychiatrist, and Charlie Brown as the boy who firmly decides to be wishy one day and washy the next...
F.D.R. received conflicting counsel from various advisers: Scientist-Administrators Vannevar Bush and James Conant, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, War Secretary Henry Stimson. But the President, without telling any of his aides, concluded with Winston Churchill that the second option was the wiser. The two solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American...
...dated the nephew of a millionaire nobleman, gone dancing with a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and partied with pop celebrities like Andy Warhol. After some nervous transatlantic phone calls from Mother, Caroline Kennedy, an art student at Sotheby's, may be adopting a lower profile. For her 18th birthday last week, young Caroline canceled plans for a big London bash and joined a few friends at a Berkeley Square club. The birthday feast: a hamburger and a glass of wine...
...Machine, running on PBS, whomped its commercial competitors in some major markets, gaining a record-breaking 36% audience share in New York. It was, ironically, part of a documentary series that has been booted off all three commercial networks for lack of audience appeal. Jennie, a PBS import about Winston Churchill's mother, has done better in some significant urban areas than a lot of network Gorgonzola. If we ever had a stable, well-managed and well-financed public broadcasting system in the U.S., one capable of building a coherent, dependable schedule, the commercial broadcasters' status might...
...book's best portrait is of the man who dwarfs the other three-Mohandas Gandhi, that tiny ascetic who for 30 years harried his British rulers with fasts and passive resistance. The mystic whom Winston Churchill once scorned as a "half-naked fakir" is a saint to his followers. "How can you say one thing last week," an associate asks him, "and something quite different this week?" Replies Gandhi: "Ah, because I have learned something since last week." The Mahatma continues to learn; he becomes at last India's soul and conscience. The most moving pages of Freedom...