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Though a New York Times review called it "stupefyingly dull" and its narrator "dim-witted," scientists have other than literary objections to In His Image (Lippincott; $8.95). In the book, published as nonfiction, Author David Rorvik holds that a baby boy cloned from an eccentric aging millionaire (and thus his genetic duplicate) is alive and well. In Washington last week, before the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, top cloning experimenters talked candidly about the book. That was more than Rorvik did. Invited twice to testify, he failed to show...
...TRAIN ROBBERS by Piers Paul Read; Lippincott; 320 pages...
...Indeed, Lippincott has apparently seized this purpose as an alibi in the continuing controversy over the legitimacy of Rorvik's story. A publisher's note falls short of backing up the author and concludes that the book "will stimulate interest and debate on issues of the utmost significance for our immediate future." And Rorvik added an afterword, saying that he hoped that people "benefit by this preview of an astonishing development whose time, at least in terms of some of the emotional and ethical issues it raises, has apparently not quite yet come." It is conceivable that Rorvik contrived...
...Lippincott, the publisher of a recently released book on cloning, said this week that it has revised the latest printings of the book to correct a misquote of Dr. Bernard D. Davis, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology at the Medical School...
Louis Hartz received the Lippincott Award for a book written over 15 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the subject. He wrote "The Liberal Tradition in America" while teaching at Harvard...