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Just out: Hunter S. Thompson’s New Journalism Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 reports on Eagleton’s pill-popping (Straight Arrow, $6.95). . . . Spacious, Cole-like treatment by Robert Kimball and William Bolcom for Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake. They’re 87year-old Noble Sissle, lyricist and former bandleader, and 90-year-old Eubie Blake, composer and ragtime pianist (Viking, $14.95). . . . Ex-Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick calls his memoir Games, Asterisks, and People (Crown, $6.95).

May Books: Richard O’Connor etches the railroad barons in Iron Wheels and Broken Men (Putnam, $8.95). . . . From the same house comes the autobiography of radical iconoclast Warren Hinckle, If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade ($6.95). . . . Washington Post reporter Chalmers M. Roberts reviews the past two decades in First Rough Draft (Praeger, $8.95). . . . Leftist-in-exile Cedric Belfrage evens some old scores in The American Inquisition 1945-1960 (Bobbs-Merrill, $8.95). . . . The Clockwork Condition by Anthony Burgess is ruminative and autobiographical (Knopf, $6.95; paper, $2.45). . . . For the same house, a batch of John Cheever short stories, The World of Apples ($5.95). . . . H. G. Wells is a bio by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (Simon & Schuster, $12.50). . . . Two cop books from Viking: Serpico by Peter Maas ($8.95) and Rizzo by Fred Hamilton ($8.95). . . . W. A. Visser ’t Hooft, first head of the World Council of Churches, pens his Memoirs (Westminster, $15). . . . Witness to History 1929- 1969 is a memoir by Charles E. Bohlen (Norton, $12.50).

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Just out: Hunter S. Thompson’s New Journalism Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 reports on Eagleton’s pill-popping (Straight Arrow, $6.95). . . . Spacious, Cole-like treatment by Robert Kimball and William Bolcom for Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake. They’re 87year-old Noble Sissle, lyricist and former bandleader, and 90-year-old Eubie Blake, composer and ragtime pianist (Viking, $14.95). . . . Ex-Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick calls his memoir Games, Asterisks, and People (Crown, $6.95).

May Books: Richard O’Connor etches the railroad barons in Iron Wheels and Broken Men (Putnam, $8.95). . . . From the same house comes the autobiography of radical iconoclast Warren Hinckle, If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade ($6.95). . . . Washington Post reporter Chalmers M. Roberts reviews the past two decades in First Rough Draft (Praeger, $8.95). . . . Leftist-in-exile Cedric Belfrage evens some old scores in The American Inquisition 1945-1960 (Bobbs-Merrill, $8.95). . . . The Clockwork Condition by Anthony Burgess is ruminative and autobiographical (Knopf, $6.95; paper, $2.45). . . . For the same house, a batch of John Cheever short stories, The World of Apples ($5.95). . . . H. G. Wells is a bio by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (Simon & Schuster, $12.50). . . . Two cop books from Viking: Serpico by Peter Maas ($8.95) and Rizzo by Fred Hamilton ($8.95). . . . W. A. Visser ’t Hooft, first head of the World Council of Churches, pens his Memoirs (Westminster, $15). . . . Witness to History 1929- 1969 is a memoir by Charles E. Bohlen (Norton, $12.50).