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CASTLE DOR (274 pp.)-Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
This engaging period piece was begun by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced cooch, as in cooch dancer), who once took time off from his voluminous novels, poems and anthologies to complete St. Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian...
...conceal her wrinkles, and sometimes unfortunately her features disappear too. Furthermore, Rock Hudson, the oversized, undertalented ex-postman from Winnetka, Ill., still has not learned to deliver the male. Best line is punched out by Tony Randall, playing as usual the sort of neurotic who, when hurt, hollers "Couch!" When the chemist cooks up a batch of intoxicating mints, Tony gobbles a fistful, gets drunk and belligerent. "Drunk!" he bellows. "Whaddya mean, drunk? I can (hic) hold my candy...
...never been so busy studying himself-on the couch and in the laboratory, in ancient ruins and suburban rumpus rooms. Sociologists make bestsellers out of the abuses of the present, archaeologists fashion books-of-the-month out of the uses of the past, and German Writer Herbert Wendt, who has popularized natural science and prehistory in three previous books, now turns his hand to ethnology...
James G. Elaine, a Maine Republican, came to the speakership in 1869, when the House had again fallen into bedlam ways. With nearly 250 members crammed into a tiny chamber, the House was known as the "Bear Garden." When all else failed, Elaine flung himself on a couch behind his desk and suspended business until order was restored. Elaine strengthened the speakership with the ruling that a party was obliged to ratify the candidate chosen by the majority caucus-thus ending the chaos of intraparty and coalition candidacies (under the Constitution, the Speaker need not even be a member...