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Books: Stackpole Books and K. S. Giniger Co., have launched a new series, “Great Memoirs and Novels of World War I.” First two are Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis’ memoir: of the war in the air ($4.95), and Siegfried Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical Memoirs of George Sherston ($8.95). Reporter Liz Smith is expanding her unimpressed articles on Her Majesty into a book, Jackie Kennedy: The Woman and the Myth, which Meredith Press will publish this fall. On Overgrown Paths, the memoir which Knut Hamsun wrote while on trial for collaborating with the Nazis, will be published in English for the first time this June (Paul S. Eriksson Co., $4.50). . . . Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson is back after a nineteen-year silence, with A Second-Hand Life, about a Tormented Woman (Macmillan, August, $5.95). Leonid Vladimirov, who defected from the Soviet Union last year, has written Russia Sad and Grey: An Intimate Report Fifty Years after the Revolution; Praeger will publish, come October. . . . Twenty-one of Robert A. Heinlein’s future-history stories are gathered for the first time in The Past Through Tomorrow (Putnam’s, $5.95). . . . Coming from Trident Press this fall is Allen Drury’s report on South Africa, A Very Strange Society. The craze continues: Dover Books have published Oscar Wilde’s Salome with all the Beardsley illustrations ($1.50); meanwhile, all that ever need be said about Aubrey ‘is said in Beardsley Beasties, wherein his drawings get the funny-captions treatment ($1.50; Serendipity III, 225 EB. 60th St., New York, N.Y. 10022).

Projects: Victor Gold, erstwhile PR man for Barry Goldwater, is at work on Too Hot in the Kitchen in which, George having served his two terms in the White House, Lurleen runs for the Presidency. Leo Mendelson Productions, who gave us the Charlie Brown specials, are taking the same line with Babar; will have an animated hour of him early next year. … Andy Warhol’s film of Snow White will star a Negro girl… . John Frankenheimer and Edward Lewis are preparing three books for the screen, for MGM: Bernard Malamud’s The _ Fizer, The Gypsy Moths by the insufferable James Drought and Philip Rock’s The Extraordinary Seamen (to be published by Meredith Press this fall), about six men who pilot a riverboat through the enemy-infested Pacific in World War II.

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Books: Stackpole Books and K. S. Giniger Co., have launched a new series, “Great Memoirs and Novels of World War I.” First two are Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis’ memoir: of the war in the air ($4.95), and Siegfried Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical Memoirs of George Sherston ($8.95). Reporter Liz Smith is expanding her unimpressed articles on Her Majesty into a book, Jackie Kennedy: The Woman and the Myth, which Meredith Press will publish this fall. On Overgrown Paths, the memoir which Knut Hamsun wrote while on trial for collaborating with the Nazis, will be published in English for the first time this June (Paul S. Eriksson Co., $4.50). . . . Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson is back after a nineteen-year silence, with A Second-Hand Life, about a Tormented Woman (Macmillan, August, $5.95). Leonid Vladimirov, who defected from the Soviet Union last year, has written Russia Sad and Grey: An Intimate Report Fifty Years after the Revolution; Praeger will publish, come October. . . . Twenty-one of Robert A. Heinlein’s future-history stories are gathered for the first time in The Past Through Tomorrow (Putnam’s, $5.95). . . . Coming from Trident Press this fall is Allen Drury’s report on South Africa, A Very Strange Society. The craze continues: Dover Books have published Oscar Wilde’s Salome with all the Beardsley illustrations ($1.50); meanwhile, all that ever need be said about Aubrey ‘is said in Beardsley Beasties, wherein his drawings get the funny-captions treatment ($1.50; Serendipity III, 225 EB. 60th St., New York, N.Y. 10022).

Projects: Victor Gold, erstwhile PR man for Barry Goldwater, is at work on Too Hot in the Kitchen in which, George having served his two terms in the White House, Lurleen runs for the Presidency. Leo Mendelson Productions, who gave us the Charlie Brown specials, are taking the same line with Babar; will have an animated hour of him early next year. … Andy Warhol’s film of Snow White will star a Negro girl… . John Frankenheimer and Edward Lewis are preparing three books for the screen, for MGM: Bernard Malamud’s The _ Fizer, The Gypsy Moths by the insufferable James Drought and Philip Rock’s The Extraordinary Seamen (to be published by Meredith Press this fall), about six men who pilot a riverboat through the enemy-infested Pacific in World War II.