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September Books. Still writing after some 60 books, Fulton J. Sheen undertakes to explain Those Mysterious Priests (Doubleday, $7.95). .Random House found 14 O’Hara stories not previously in book form. Now they are, in The Good Samaritan and Other Stories ($7.95).Margaret Canovan assesses The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt for Harcourt ($6.50). … Highly Irregular is how Mencken biographer Carl Bode labels his own newspaper columns (Southern Illinois, $6.95). .Veteran Catholic author publisher lecturer Frank Sheed dubs his reminiscences The Church and (Doubleday, $7.95). James Michener’s Centennial is a novel about America, 1876 (Random, $10). Chris Chase’s How to Be a Movie Star is not a dirty book, in case you were wondering (Harper, $5.95). Nor is Norman Cousins’ The Celebration of Life meant to be a joke book (Harper, $4.95).

Sports Books. Yet another history of the Mets is You Gotta Believe, this one by Rex Lardner (Praeger, out, $6.95). The Associated Press Sports Almanac 1974 is a reference book covering most sports (Dell, out, $2.25).Clemente! is by Kal Wagenheim (Pocket, out, $1.45). .Remember the barnstorming baseball teams of yesteryear? The Indianapolis Clowns survive, but in decline, say Bill Heward and Dimitri V. Gat in Some Are Called Clowns (T.Y. Crowell, out, $6.95).

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September Books. Still writing after some 60 books, Fulton J. Sheen undertakes to explain Those Mysterious Priests (Doubleday, $7.95). .Random House found 14 O’Hara stories not previously in book form. Now they are, in The Good Samaritan and Other Stories ($7.95).Margaret Canovan assesses The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt for Harcourt ($6.50). … Highly Irregular is how Mencken biographer Carl Bode labels his own newspaper columns (Southern Illinois, $6.95). .Veteran Catholic author publisher lecturer Frank Sheed dubs his reminiscences The Church and (Doubleday, $7.95). James Michener’s Centennial is a novel about America, 1876 (Random, $10). Chris Chase’s How to Be a Movie Star is not a dirty book, in case you were wondering (Harper, $5.95). Nor is Norman Cousins’ The Celebration of Life meant to be a joke book (Harper, $4.95).

Sports Books. Yet another history of the Mets is You Gotta Believe, this one by Rex Lardner (Praeger, out, $6.95). The Associated Press Sports Almanac 1974 is a reference book covering most sports (Dell, out, $2.25).Clemente! is by Kal Wagenheim (Pocket, out, $1.45). .Remember the barnstorming baseball teams of yesteryear? The Indianapolis Clowns survive, but in decline, say Bill Heward and Dimitri V. Gat in Some Are Called Clowns (T.Y. Crowell, out, $6.95).