Among the new books announced for fall: Tourist in Africa, by Evelyn Waugh (Little Brown) . . . . The Necessity for Choice, subtitled “Prospects of American Foreign Policy,” by Henry A. Kissinger (Regnery). . . . The Future of Education, by Thomas Molnar (Fleet)…. The Realm of the Divine, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Harper), which continues the discussion begun in The Phenomenon of Man. . . . the third volume of The Age of Roosevelt, by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: The Exercise of Democracy (Houghton). . . . The Metamorphosis of the Gods, by André Malraux (Doubleday), a companion volume to The Voices of Silence. Also, new novels: Sloan Wilson, A Sense of Value (Harper); John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Knopf); Noel Coward, Pomp and Circumstance (Doubleday); Georg Mann, The Dollar Diploma (Macmillan).
After 35 years as chief drama critic of the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson is retiring. He will write a general column on cultural matters two or three times a week. . . . A new idea in radio programming, a station entirely devoted to news, has been launched in San Francisco by Station KFAX. . . . Variety reports that the Cultural Affairs Section of the State Department is working on plans for an American repertory company to tour countries behind the Iron Curtain.
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