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...Publishers, Author Haydn, 54, has earned a reputation for scrupulous taste and sympathetic insight. But as an author, he commits gaucheries and piles up prolixities that as an editor he should have blenched at. Perhaps it is because the book is almost embarrassingly autobiographical. And at the end, the reader learns that the book is merely the first part of an unfinished trilogy...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. Like an old man yarning on the back stoop, a Nobel prizewinner indulges himself and the reader in a fond and very funny story...
Paul Kidd, 29, feature writer, Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, will be the second holder of the Canadian Fellowship, sponsored by the Reader's Digest Association of Canada. A native of England, where he started newspaper work on the Evening Chronicle of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kidd has been six years on the Hamilton paper. He plans to study Latin America...
...separate ambitions: to deliver not just a rehash of the conspicuous happenings but to have something fresh to add to them; to spot in the unlikeliest places and widest variety of fields what is new, important and lively; and to provide a coherency and shape that will increase the reader's understanding of the random and complex events of the week. Three examples of what we try for in this week's issue...
...Bench. A voracious reader who takes on an enormous load of court work, Black is a diffident and kindly man in his nonworking hours. Married for the second time (his wife of 31 years died ten years ago), to his former secretary, he lives in a handsome Alexandria, Va., home, still plays an energetic game of tennis. Earthy and easygoing, he frequently takes his meals in the court's cafeteria, where he chats and jokes with the waitresses. When among the other justices, he constantly but cordially tries to win them over to his views. And when he propounds...