■ August Books: William F. Gavin, aide to Senator James Buckley, pleads the case for white ethnics in Street Corner Conservatives (Arlington, $7.95). For the same publisher, NR contributor James K. Fitzpatrick fashions a lifeline: How to Survive in Your Liberal School ($7.95). . . . Dorothy Gies McGuigan’s Metternich and the Duchess goes beyond the liaison to delve into the great Foreign Minister’s diplomacy (Doubleday, $12.50). . . . Moscow and Leningrad Observed is an overblown guidebook by Moscow correspondent George Bortoli (Oxford, $18.50). The same house offers Paul Fussell’s new look at World War I, The Great War and Modern Memory ($13.95).
■ Films: Anthony Quinn will star in Mohammed, Messenger of God. . . . David Janssen, John Ireland, Senta Berger, and John Saxon engage in The Swiss Conspiracy. . . . James Mason will film Shakespeare’s The Tempest. . . . Archipelago on Fire is a Jules Verne tale that will star Telly Savalas. . . . Christopher Miles is directing Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, and Lee J. Cobb in a comedy, Heaven Save Us from Our Friends. . . . Due for reissue: Herbert Wilcox’ 1938 costumer on Queen Victoria, Sixty Glorious Years. . . . John Huston behind the camera for a Kipling-based story, The Man Who Would Be King, starring Michael Caine, Sean Connery, and Christopher Plummer.
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