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...Pearson's, naturally, with a venal U.S. Senator. The new Morris West is about the buildup of the Six Day War in Israel. Following the fashion of pointless pen names, Kingsley Amis calls himself Robert Markham as he takes over the James Bond industry with a suitably unlikely yarn about a convention of Iron Curtain bosses in Greece. Arthur Hailey seems to be starting a literary business too, by following his bestselling Hotel with a novel called Airport. Future possibilities are endless: Pentagon? Water Commission? Credit Bureau...
First marketed two months ago at $2.95 a pair (or in kits complete with yarn and patterns that cost from $18 to $50), "Jumbo Jets" are being sold in 25 department stores and 1,500 knit shops throughout the nation. Chicago's Marshall Field sold 3,000 pairs of them last month; Gimbel's Pittsburgh store sold 1,200 pairs in a single day. Says Helena Stockwell, owner of the Knit Shop in Highland Park, III.: "They've gotten us a lot of new customers, and old customers who haven't knitted for ages are taking...
...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. A fast-paced World War II sea yarn that dramatizes the futility of applying humane...
...readers are willing to unravel yards of obscuring verbiage, they will find flashes of vivid comic writing-and a sometimes gripping Field & Stream hunting yarn told in what Mailer fondly believes to be the accents of Ernest Hemingway. Unhappily, Mailer is not only politically naive; even his doggedly filthy language is grade-B graffiti...
Griffin does more than tell a good yarn. He points out the hopelessness of trying to apply humane laws to the inhumane lawlessness...