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Last week, the only newsworthy item that emerged from either of the President's semiweekly press conferences was the fact that the President had not only contrived to sell five volumes of collected "State Papers" to Random House for publication next spring but that he had also sold the unpublished prefaces to each volume separately for publication to United Feature Syndicate. Meanwhile, the major White House news of the week, as usual, originated elsewhere...
PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...
Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...
...appropriation and the aid of the Post Office Department. Last November, 81,000,000 unemployment blanks were distributed by letter-carriers to 32,000,000 U. S. homes. As the returns came in, a separate door-to-door census checked them in 1,864 areas scattered at random about...
...STAR OVER CHINA-Edgar Snow- Random House...