Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIFE in Afghanistan. The gift opened Picasso's door and his heart, won what Photographer Duncan wanted-months at home with the great artist. As a result, Duncan took more than 10,000 photographs, last week published in The Private World of Pablo Picasso (Harper; $4.95 ; Ridge Press paperback; $1.50) a photographic record of Picasso's private life. The scenes range from a scrub in a tub and carving a chicken ("Could have been carved just about as daintily-and just as fast-by stuffing it with a hand grenade") to all-night engraving sessions during which "Picasso...
...SECONDS FROM Now (224 pp.)-Kay Cicellis-Grove Press (clothbound $3.50; paperback...
...SUBTERRANEANS (III pp.)-Jack Kerouac-Grove Press (clothbound, $3.50; paperback...
Peyton Place (Jerry Wald-20th Century-Fox) cuts some of the sex and violence from Grace Metalious' hugely profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still...
...which has proven quite successful--the group is working to simplify classroom experiments and build up a supplementary film library. To provide extra reading matter for the exceptional physics student who now has virtually none available at his level, the Committee is beginning a one hundred and fifty volume paperback series...