• Books Ahead: Letters of Ford Madox Ford is due from Princeton in August. . . . Dwight Macdonald’s very own critique of the Warren Report, The Ghost of Conspiracy, will be published by Prentice-Hall in June. . . . Finis Farr, the archbiographer, is hard at work on Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta (Morrow, October). . . . Conor Cruise O’Brien’s newest book, coming from Pantheon in June, is Writers and Politics. Seems he was really just an essayist and critic all along. . . . A lady named Tommy Whitehead has written a biography of her husband entitled The Beard and I. Yes, he’s Commr. G. Who (McKay, August 20).
• Cheap Reprints: The better half of the Kinsey Report will be reissued as a $1.65 Pocket Book in November. . . . A New York firm’s reprint of two ancient Chinese texts, the Ssu-pu-ts’ung-k’an and the Po-na-pen, will retail for a trifling $300 (for 250 volumes).
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