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Died. Jan Struther, 52, British author (.4 Pocketful of Pebbles) best known in the U.S. for Mrs. Miniver (1939), the saga of British suburbia on the verge of World War II; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Jan Struther and Pierre Szamek discuss Hudson's Green Mansions...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Guests: Jan Struther, James Thurber, Henry Morgan...
...what grounds does Poet T. S. Eliot rate less than four columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column...
...with a new radio program of book reviews. Amateur Stone thought the idea of "just talking for 15 minutes" over Albany's 250-watt WABY sounded dull. Instead, he suggested that a group of people sit around and discuss books. One day Stone asked visiting Author Jan Struther, then lecturing in Albany, if she would join in the discussion of Mrs. Miniver. She did, the program clicked, and Variety gave it a good review...