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...TOV/N (371 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
...according to Editor Henry Beetle Hough of Massachusetts' weekly Vineyard Gazette (circ. 4,993). Examples: "If the same standards that apply to local newspaper writing on the score of interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could be made up only of certain building blocks labeled Pegler, Sokolsky, Lawrence, Pearson...
From the heyday of radio's first spectacular giveaways, quiz producers have stacked the cards to make the game as entertaining as possible. Stop the Music telephoned listeners, apparently at random, to give them a chance to name the "mystery tune" and win a growing jackpot, but by the time the broadcast started, the calls were stacked up on the switchboard and auditioned by a program staffer, who put them on the air in the most dramatic order. Just in case enough listeners might not know the mystery tune, tips on its name were planted regularly in Walter Winchell...
...OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated...
...Poindexter's lines From The Sanatorium seem to be a beautiful sentence dropped at random in the middle of the Advocate. But then there is no super-abundance of beauty, even verbal beauty, in the Advocate, or elsewhere...