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...CALLED AND THE CHOSEN (306 pp.) −Monica Baldwin−Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Monica Baldwin is an ex-nun. The cousin of England's onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a Roman Catholic contemplative order in 1914, left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman...
...book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting...
Dash of Spice. In Santa Monica, Calif.. Willie Thigpen, 19. caught with two friends after relieving a restaurant of $150 and 20 barbecued chickens, readily admitted the theft, explained: "I love that chicken. It tastes better when the cops are looking...
Born. To Jerry Lewis, 31, raucous movie and TV comedian, and Patti Palmer Lewis, 32: a fourth son, fourth child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Christopher Joseph. Weight...