Smoke Filled Rooms

RANDOM NOTES

■ BOOKS Viking’s fall list includes a 640- pager by Timesman Tad Szulc, Czechoslovakia Since World War II (October, $12.50); Angus Wilson’s The World of Charles Dickens, with 240 illustrations (August, $12.95); and The Raphael Bible, sixty illustrations of the ceiling vaults leading to the Sistine Chapel, with commentary by Rumer Godden and Bible passages mainly from the Knox translation (October, $8.95). … A different route to glory, or something, is traced by Lately Thomas in Storming Heaven: The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson (Morrow, September, $10). Frederick Brisson has already picked up dramatic rights as a vehicle for wife Roz Russell.

PC

About the Author

Philip Crane

Featured Tags

Presidential Election

Politics

RANDOM NOTES

■ BOOKS Viking’s fall list includes a 640- pager by Timesman Tad Szulc, Czechoslovakia Since World War II (October, $12.50); Angus Wilson’s The World of Charles Dickens, with 240 illustrations (August, $12.95); and The Raphael Bible, sixty illustrations of the ceiling vaults leading to the Sistine Chapel, with commentary by Rumer Godden and Bible passages mainly from the Knox translation (October, $8.95). … A different route to glory, or something, is traced by Lately Thomas in Storming Heaven: The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson (Morrow, September, $10). Frederick Brisson has already picked up dramatic rights as a vehicle for wife Roz Russell.