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Died. Joseph Henry Jackson, 60, Sunday book editor and daily literary columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime radio commentator on books (Bookman's Notebook), anthologist (Viking Portable Murder Book), writer of fact-crime books (Bad Company) and California history (Anybody's Gold); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco...
...however, he deferred to the late Getulio Vargas, instead took aim on 1955. Last year his ambitions suffered a crippling blow; running for governor in São Paulo, as a fitting steppingstone to the presidency, Adhemar lost. After that, whenever a reporter whipped out a notebook, Adhemar insisted that he would run only if drafted and thus forced to "bow to the will of the people...
...EDITH SITWELL (Columbia Literary Series; Caedmon,$5.95). In a voice like a medieval lute from which she plucks dainty abstractions, the English poetess reads, in the first record, excerpts from A Poet's Notebook and An Old Woman; in the second, to be released in May, excerpts from The Canticle of the Rose and Facade...
Members of Parliament, troubled by increased unemployment and last year's business decline, happily thumped their desks as Finance Minister Walter Harris read from a top-secret budget notebook the details of his pump-priming tax cuts...
...Eddie, the Shorthorn heifers seemed easy. One looked a bit long-bodied; another was too narrow through the quarters; a third stood out as "a thick, typy heifer that had a lot of bloom." Each heifer had a number on its back, and Eddie jotted down in his notebook how he thought they should rank...