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Villa-Lobos realized that music could thus be charted from business indices, people's profiles (turned on their side), or even a random scrawl. As director of Brazil's public musical education, he tried out his idea on school children. Last week many a Brazilian moppet, playing at composing, drew jagged lines on paper, superimposed them on a millimetric chart (with the chromatic scale only), rushed to a piano to hear the result...
...HAMLET-William Faulkner -Random House...
...GOOD AS MURDERED - James O'Hanlon-Random House ($2). Rib-tickler about young Jason Cordry, Hollywooder, who just can't finish any of the mystery stories he writes. One gets finished for him when a shooting prompts him to try the hero's role in real life. Goofy but good...
Having met Mr. Paul many times at the offices of Random House, our mutual publishers, I can also state that he is not as barrel-shaped as his pictures show. He is really a small man-who, if you must coin an image around, would be keg-shaped...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...