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...ERIC GIBBS London, England...
...have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
Died. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 46, Bengal-born British novelist, critic, political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) ; of tuberculosis; in London. A product of Eton, Orwell became a non-Communist leftist, fought for the Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state...
...Eric Williams' "true account" of one of World War II's most original escapes (he is the "Peter Howard" of the story) sold more than 200,000 copies in England last year. An equally avid U.S. appetite for well-paced excitement could make The Wooden Horse one of the U.S. bestsellers of the year...
...WOODEN HORSE (255 pp.)-Eric Williams-Harper...