• Books Forthcoming: The official history of JFK’s assassination is due from Harper & Row early next year. William Manchester’s The Death of a President will run to over 900 pages; author was selected to do the job by Mrs. Kennedy, and the ms. has the imprimatur of a committee headed by none other than Arthur Schlesinger Jr. . . . Hmm. . . . Tristram Coffin offers us Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher (Dutton, $6.95) ; equally terrifying is news that McGraw-Hill and Ramparts have agreed to cooperate on a series of titles, first of which, due in January, is Married Priests and Married Nuns (to each other?) . . . Musicologist Henry A. Kmen’s Music in New Orleans: The Formative Years covers 1791-1841; two future volumes will carry the story up to the present (Louisiana State, $7.50).
• Movies Ditto: Charlton Heston will portray a doubtless charismatic conductor who with his entire orchestra is captured by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge, in The Battle Horns. Ralph Nelson is directing from the Alan Sillitoe novel, for Universal. . . . Graham Greene himself is readying the screenplay of The Comedians, to star Richard Burton and Alec Guinness. . . . Now showing or soon to be at your local theater is Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life, an anthology featuring The Freshman entire, and excerpts from several other films.
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