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• Books Ahead: Edwin P. Hoyt’s latest biography is of Alexander Woollcott, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Abelard-Schuman, $6.60). . . . Gordon Tullock, who reviews books for NR, has written Toward a Mathematics of Politics (U. of Michigan Press, $7.95). . . . Ezra Pound’s letters to, and essays on, James Joyce are gathered for the first time in Pound/Joyce (New Directions, $10). . . . William Faulkner’s (he added the “u”) only surviving brother, Murry Falkner, writes about the family in The Falkners of Mississippi (Louisiana State, $5.95). . . . The poor old American railroads get it in the neck from Peter Lyon, in To Hell in a Day Coach (Lippincott, $5.95).

The Private Papers of Walter Winchell is due from Doubleday sometime next year, after serialization in McCall’s. WW insisted on a clause in the contract freeing him from any responsibility for libel. . . . Lizzie did it after all, says Victoria Lincoln (she grew up just down the street from the Borden home) in A Private Disgrace, latest in a spate of books about a good old murder (Putnam’s $6.95). . . . Run! Paperback of Death of a President is coming in April, to be published by Harper at $1.65 and distributed by Popular Library.

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• Books Ahead: Edwin P. Hoyt’s latest biography is of Alexander Woollcott, The Man Who Came to Dinner (Abelard-Schuman, $6.60). . . . Gordon Tullock, who reviews books for NR, has written Toward a Mathematics of Politics (U. of Michigan Press, $7.95). . . . Ezra Pound’s letters to, and essays on, James Joyce are gathered for the first time in Pound/Joyce (New Directions, $10). . . . William Faulkner’s (he added the “u”) only surviving brother, Murry Falkner, writes about the family in The Falkners of Mississippi (Louisiana State, $5.95). . . . The poor old American railroads get it in the neck from Peter Lyon, in To Hell in a Day Coach (Lippincott, $5.95).

The Private Papers of Walter Winchell is due from Doubleday sometime next year, after serialization in McCall’s. WW insisted on a clause in the contract freeing him from any responsibility for libel. . . . Lizzie did it after all, says Victoria Lincoln (she grew up just down the street from the Borden home) in A Private Disgrace, latest in a spate of books about a good old murder (Putnam’s $6.95). . . . Run! Paperback of Death of a President is coming in April, to be published by Harper at $1.65 and distributed by Popular Library.