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...London suburb of St. Albans one afternoon last week, a spry, retired accountant named Robert Turner, 70, tucked a notebook into his pocket and set out on a special call. In an hour's visit with Retired Clerk Leslie Wilson, Turner chatted about old times and admired the abstract paintings that Wilson does as a hobby. When he got home, Turner wrote a short report of the visit, mailed it off to the London offices of Unilever Ltd., for which both men once worked...
...forehead furrowed with the effort of concentration, a massive, middle-aged Negro sat scrunched at a fourth-grader's desk in a Chicago public school. Bent over a ruled notebook, he slowly scrawled one letter, then another. Finally he leaned back and smiled. "Look at that," he beamed at his neighbor. "Look at that."' It was something to see. For the first time in his life, the man had written his name. Joyfully, he wrote it again, and then again...
...young instrumentalists in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, hired the outstanding performers and put the rest on a waiting list. To fill out the orchestra with more experienced players, Stokowski consulted what is probably the most extensive talent file in all music: his own loose-leaf notebook in which he has evaluated every instrumentalist and singer who has ever performed with him-about 1,700 of them...
...Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. Self-knowledge run fiercely to earth makes a rewarding literary chase in this well-written novel about a woman author, even though some of the ground-Communism, failed sex-is already thoroughly trampled...
...Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing. A superior attempt at running elusive self-knowledge to earth; the self, in this case, that of a British woman writer who is the novel's tormented heroine; the knowledge, fascinating entries in four notebooks she keeps on four facets of her public and private life...