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Curley's chronicler, Novelist Edwin Greene O'Connor, 38, is a onetime radio announcer who made $720 from his first novel, and shelved the second in disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...
...Smash, Burn, Kill. It was a moment the Communists had been preparing for, a fact well known to Chief Minister Morarji Desai of Bombay State, who is often spoken of as Nehru's heir apparent. Before dawn, on Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked...
Virginia Museum Director Leslie Cheek has no doubt that the museum's new Watteau will be a smash hit. Says he: "Virginians traditionally have a fondness for 18th-century decor and architecture." And in Watteau they are getting what Director Cheek calls "probably the most important work of art the Virginia Museum has ever acquired...
July. Marlon Brando will be a smash hit in Peter Pan. Liberace is refused, the lectureship going to Senator Knowland. The President of the Class of '96 will resign asking, "Whatever happened to us leftists?" In the world of food, Elsie will deny she owns Cronin's. The Hayes-Bick will reserve four tables for poets only and both Mike's Club and Harry's Arcade will remove food counters to make room for more pinball machines...
...Pasquale was an obvious success; with a good English libretto, it could be one of the Met's alltime smash hits...