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...Random Sowing. Bombs and bullets do strange things when dropped and fired at random. In Brighton an army eleven was playing cricket against the local police. Lieut. G. W. Wood was bowling when a bomb hit the playing green. "I found myself blown some distance away," he said. The chief constable, waiting to bat, threw himself down and an iron girder fell across his neck...
Last week appeared Georgie's autobiography (So Help Me-Random House; $2.50)-or what William Saroyan, in a rather sniffy introduction, suspects is just the first of Georgie 's autobiographies. Though any future ones should have no trouble excelling So Help Me in literary merit, none can hope to outdo it for frankness and questionable taste. Jessel shoots the works, Rousseaus his wild oats, touts his triumphs, flaunts his flops, underscores his drinking, italicizes his debts, is sometimes hard to take, occasionally hard to resist, always human...
WINTER'S TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
...armistice celebrations. Greer Garson helps him evade the authorities, and they eventually marry, settling down to a peaceful, idyllic English country existence. At Liverpool on business, Coleman is struck by a car, regains his memory, forgets his wife, and returns to resume his life as the squire of Random Hall. Reviving the family fortunes, he gains the title of "Industrial Prince of England." Meanwhile his wife traces him, becomes his private secretary. Coleman marries her again, this time for business reasons. Finally he remembers his past and falls in love with his wife a second time...
BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN-Vincent Sheean-Random House...