Books in Brief The Fantasy World Of Peter Stone And Other Fables
Malcolm Boyd offers a satirical tale of a cleric Peter Stone who renounces the world and the flesh and stars in a $20 million Hollywood spectacle. Leonard Michaels debuts a short story collection praised by Hawkes Styron and Scherer. Rich Raine crafts a Zurich murder tied to West German deaths. Rex Anderson delivers a debut mystery about a framed college senior versus a corrupt cop.
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Peter Stone
Malcolm Boyd
Harper and Row
Boyd
Hollywood
Hidden Jones
Counternoid Offers Three Way Relief for Hemorrhoids
After five years of testing Counternoid claims to reduce pain by coating and protecting tissue and to tackle a major hemorrhoid cause with DSS30 by softening stool and easing bowel movement. The product, described as nonprescription, comes as a stainless cream or suppositories and is aimed at natural healing without surgery.
The Films of Cecil B. DeMille recollected by Ringgold and Bodeen
Gene Ringgold and De Witt Bodeen profile Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film era and early talkies. They recount his 70 directing credits from 1913 to 1956, highlight stars like Gloria Swanson and Bes sie Barriscale, and note critics’ reactions to his lavish, corn-filled style and Barnum-like showmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil B. DeMille
Gene Ringgold
de Witt Bodeen
Citadel Press
DeMille
P.T. Barnum
Dustin Farnum
Gary Cooper
James Wynnegate
England
Wild West
Diana
Nellie
Reno
Harvey
Gloria Swanson
Eliott Dexter
Raymond Hatton
Theodore Roberts
Wallace Reid
Bessie Barriscale
Lolita Robertson
Anita King
Barnum
Samson and Delilah
Reinhardt
Variety
Hollywood
Dr. Wassell
Miler Betrayed The Olympian by Brian Glanville
Review notes a rare sports novel about an amateur athlete and his gifted coach. The Olympian follows a great miler’s rise and fall, betrayed by his wife during a peak Tokyo bid, with praise for Glanville’s prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian Glanville
Coward McCann
Heywood Broun
Tokyo
Wee Ge
Contes Siunetel
Two-Edged Knife Satire of a Campus Turmoil
A satirical novel by Paul Rader published by Dial Press portrays violent campus clashes led by Students for a Just Society on a fictional Western College LA. The book pits reformers and rebels against academia and authority with razor sharp wit and provocative scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Rader
Rick Kozak
Students For A Just Society
SDS
South Coast Botanic Garden showcases diverse plant life on slopes
The article describes eucalyptus sycamore and paulownia on a slope near the South Coast Botanic Garden. It notes an 18 inch drop into a lake aimed to be finished by Labor Day, lists species from ombu to Catalina poppies, mentions fire retardant plants studied at the arboretum, and highlights public-spirited community goals to brighten neighborhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
South Coast Botanic Garden
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Leonard Michaels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John Hawkes
Mark Scherer
William Styron
Richard Raine
Harcourt, Brace and World
Zurich
Rex Anderson
Simon and Schuster
Svadey
Open Sun
Harbor Bivd
Disneyland
Pondo Ave
By Nat Honig
ABC of
C. B
Miler
Professor Wilmess
The
Dial Press
Los Angeles
Kozak
Gen. MacArthur
Cathy
Wilmess
SJS
Swift
LAW
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