Post Gets Many Stories In Anthology
NEW YORK APD One quarter of the 20 stories in The Best American Short Stories 1964 were first printed in The Saturday Evening Post, with many others from small literary magazines. The Kenyon Review leads with two. Martha Foley edits the volume, due Aug 27 from Houghton Mifflin, at $5.50. Mary Jane a children’s book about a Negro girl in the Deep South, by Dorothy Sterling, will be published in Russia by Doubleday. officials say it will be truthful and informative. Victor Trivas, after 31 days in a Russian prison, teams with Charles O’Neal on The Thirty-Second Day, now out from Doubleday. Politics in the executive suite and promotion are examined in How to Succeed in Company Politics by Edward J. Hegarty from McGraw-Hill. Twain’s The Gilded Age, a failure when first published in 1873, gets a new edition from Trident Press. An introduction by Justin Kaplan notes its importance to Twain’s development. Moscow reports a canal system linking five seas via the Volga, a 3470 mile network praised as an engineering marvel. Charges dismissed as Alfred Wilson in Versailles, Ind., is freed after a grand jury declined indictment for murder.