Just Out : Not to spoil your day, but Cavett is a new autobiography (Harcourt, $8.95)…. Two big biographies from Putnam’s: Lorenzo the Magnificent, most versatile of the Medicis, by Hugh Ross Williamson ($15.95) and a new one on Marlborough, The First Churchill, by Correlli Barnett ($14.95)…. Canaris is a life of the German spy boss by André Brissaud (Grosset, $7.95)…. Bachelors Anonymous, Wodehousian all the way, celebrates a group of beleaguered eligibles who organize themselves along AA lines (Simon & Schuster, $6.95)…. Leonard Mosley’s The Reich Marshal, a biography of Goering, is drawn in part from interviews with his widow (Doubleday, $12.50)… William S. Burroughs’ The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is a fictional treatment of the ganglord (Viking, $7.95)…. It was a ghastly one, but Jim Bishop retraces FDR’s Last Year for Morrow ($10.95).
Sports Books: Reprinted by Scribner’s: a 1902 history of Baseball by Seymour R. Church (paperback, out, $4.95)…. For its “Great Teams’ Great Years” series, Macmillan has five new ones for September at $8.95 each: Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers. For the same house, Mickey Herskowitz means the Fifties when he celebrates The Golden Age of Pro Football (Oct., $10.95)…. Kal Wagenheim’s Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend is illustrated (Praeger, Aug., $7.95).
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