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Died. Saxe Commins, 66, senior editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production...
...HORN (243 pp.)-John Clellon Holmes-Random House...
...mathematical method, Dr. Stuckert constructs a "genetic probability table" that shows the changing composition of the population since 1750. To do this he assumes that "the probability of persons classified as white mating with persons classified as Negro is one-twentieth of what would be expected if mating were random." In a population with 90% white and 10% Negro, for example, the probability of mixed matings works out at 9 per 1,000. Dr. Stuckert admits that this figure cannot be exact, but he says it agrees with many sociological studies. His other figures (e.g., immigration and natural increase...
...ENEMY CAMP (561 pp.)-Jerome Weidman - Random House...
Book Publisher (Random House) and TV Paneluminary (What's My Line?) Bennett Cerf gave a group of Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...