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...DOUBLE AXE (149 pp.)-Robinson Jeffers-Random House...
Readers of this book of poems are advised in a highly unusual (and ungrammatical) publisher's note that Random House does not agree with some of the political views pronounced by the poet Robinson Jeffers. When those hawks are being called, Random House wants it known that its own big mouth was shut...
...chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for the murder of her husband, in the old New York American. Fowler's story was republished last week in Star Reporters (Random House; $3), an anthology of 34 newspaper stories selected by Hearstling Ward Greene. Editor Greene polled 100 newsmen, then ignored most of their 1,000 nominations in favor of his own choices. Among them: three executions, three trials, three funerals, two lynchings, a flood, a fire, a torpedoing...
Stop the Music, a hardy musical hybrid of "Miss Hush" and the Pot o' Gold, is a variation on a well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune...
...persuasive powers of poetry got thumping recognition from Robinson Jeffers' publisher. Next month Jeffers' new book of verse would contain a cautious note-to-the-reader: "Random House feels compelled to go on the record with its disagreement over some of the political views expressed in this volume...