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New in Paperback: So far neither the perpetrators of modern art nor its entrepreneurs have found the proper words, painted or otherwise, with which to confound Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word (Bantam, $1.75). . . . Stephen Weed’s My Search for Patty Hearst (Warner, $1.95) is probably going to lead him instead to that big pot of gold. . . . You’ve probably forgotten all about The Great Train Robbery (Bantam, $1.95) by Michael Crichton. . . . Lucy Dawidowicz’ splendid The War against the Jews: 1933-45 (Bantam, $2.50) is now priced for the masses.

Last of the June Crop: Michael Wheeler’s Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America (Liveright, $9.95) proves that polling is no more an exact science than est or sociology. . . . James A. Michener must have worked up a healthy sweat over Sports in America (Random House, $12.50). . . . Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau should have sung this one: his Wagner and Nietzsche (Seabury, $12.95). . . . The author and publisher have very thoughtfully reproduced large amounts of formerly offending matter in Felice Flanery Lewis’ Literature, Obscenity, and Law (Illinois University Press, $20). . . . George D. Aiken, senator from Vermont, provides his own—and much more charitable—version of “the final days” with the publication .of Aiken: Senate Diary January 1972-January 1975 (Stephen D. Greene Press, $12). . . . “You involve yourself with a very low grade of person when you become a thief,” says Willie Sutton in Where the Money Was (Viking, $10). . . . Stanley H. Brown has written a book about Dallas’ late Grade A First Citizen in H. L. Hunt: A Biography (Playboy Press, $10).

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New in Paperback: So far neither the perpetrators of modern art nor its entrepreneurs have found the proper words, painted or otherwise, with which to confound Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word (Bantam, $1.75). . . . Stephen Weed’s My Search for Patty Hearst (Warner, $1.95) is probably going to lead him instead to that big pot of gold. . . . You’ve probably forgotten all about The Great Train Robbery (Bantam, $1.95) by Michael Crichton. . . . Lucy Dawidowicz’ splendid The War against the Jews: 1933-45 (Bantam, $2.50) is now priced for the masses.

Last of the June Crop: Michael Wheeler’s Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America (Liveright, $9.95) proves that polling is no more an exact science than est or sociology. . . . James A. Michener must have worked up a healthy sweat over Sports in America (Random House, $12.50). . . . Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau should have sung this one: his Wagner and Nietzsche (Seabury, $12.95). . . . The author and publisher have very thoughtfully reproduced large amounts of formerly offending matter in Felice Flanery Lewis’ Literature, Obscenity, and Law (Illinois University Press, $20). . . . George D. Aiken, senator from Vermont, provides his own—and much more charitable—version of “the final days” with the publication .of Aiken: Senate Diary January 1972-January 1975 (Stephen D. Greene Press, $12). . . . “You involve yourself with a very low grade of person when you become a thief,” says Willie Sutton in Where the Money Was (Viking, $10). . . . Stanley H. Brown has written a book about Dallas’ late Grade A First Citizen in H. L. Hunt: A Biography (Playboy Press, $10).