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In the headlines: Besides Norman Mailer’s report on Apollo 11, Little, Brown (owned by Time, Inc.) will publish—as soon as possible after they return —the astronauts’ Own Story, as told to somebody. And Time-Life Books plans a lavishly illustrated chronicle, from the first rocketry experiments to Apollo 11, called To the Moon (September, $24.50).

Mayor Lindsay[’s ghostwriter] couldn’t meet the deadline for his Campaign Book, The City, so Norton has moved publication from May 28 to “shortly after Labor Day.” . . . Another LB J aide has signed a fat book contract: Jack Valenti will do two books for McGraw-Hill. Fascinating Men is twelve profiles from Valenti’s White House (including LBJ), due next spring; a year later comes a novel about, yes, a young newsman turned Presidential assistant. . . . Coming in the fall are Mary Martin’s Needlepoint (Morrow, $13.95) and John F. Kennedy, Scrimshaw Collector (Little, Brown, $15); a trend?

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In the headlines: Besides Norman Mailer’s report on Apollo 11, Little, Brown (owned by Time, Inc.) will publish—as soon as possible after they return —the astronauts’ Own Story, as told to somebody. And Time-Life Books plans a lavishly illustrated chronicle, from the first rocketry experiments to Apollo 11, called To the Moon (September, $24.50).

Mayor Lindsay[’s ghostwriter] couldn’t meet the deadline for his Campaign Book, The City, so Norton has moved publication from May 28 to “shortly after Labor Day.” . . . Another LB J aide has signed a fat book contract: Jack Valenti will do two books for McGraw-Hill. Fascinating Men is twelve profiles from Valenti’s White House (including LBJ), due next spring; a year later comes a novel about, yes, a young newsman turned Presidential assistant. . . . Coming in the fall are Mary Martin’s Needlepoint (Morrow, $13.95) and John F. Kennedy, Scrimshaw Collector (Little, Brown, $15); a trend?