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BELLE OUT OF ORDER (341 pp.)-Belle Livingstone-Holt...
...PLAIN (313 pp.)-Harry Golden-World...
...booth's dimensions, variously reported as 3 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet and as 32 inches by 32 inches by 7 feet. Most booths have the latter dimensions (see Alec Beil, Specifications and Measurements for the Construction of Telephone Booths in the Continental United States, vol.1, pp...
MAGGIE CASSIDY, by Jack Kerouac (189 pp.; Avon; 50?), is a sequel to Doctor Sax (TIME, May 18), the beat Boccaccio's exuberant salute to boyhood. It follows Jack Duluoz and his roughneck buddies from the time they pass puberty (timidly, as if it were a haunted house at midnight) beyond the point at which Duluoz leaves Lowell, Mass., as Kerouac did, to play football for Columbia. Both books are written in the author's customary form, which is to say, utter formlessness. But while the disjointed episodes of Doctor Sax added up-after a number of sizable...
...LLEWELLYN JONES, by Paul Hyde Banner (372 pp.; Scribner; $4.50), brings back the amateurish but pleasantly diverting ex-diplomat who specializes in novels (S.P.Q.R., Excelsior!) about the kind of foreign affairs that set ambassadorial medals ajingle. The latest hero to pop out of Author Bonner's undiplomatic pouch is Townsend Britton, who is on the mossy side of 50; he is tall, athletic and handsome, but his soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that...