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A Political Note: It takes a real poet—i.e., a perfervid imagination—to see any Kennedy as a servant, and here is Archibald MacLeish, Poet Laureate of the New Deal, calling Edward M. Kennedy “that rarest of senators, who is first and foremost a public servant.” And here is Henry Steele Commager, calling Teddy “a successor to John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster.” Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will have a hard time topping that one, though he will probably be asked to . . . Anyhow, all this from the editor and introducer of Our Day and Generation (Simon & Schuster, $12.95), a collection of the speeches of EMK. Coming in November.

More November Titles: The Music of Man (Methuen, $19.95), by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis, is based on an eight-part program aired by the Canadian Broadcasting system. It deals with the history and cultural impact of music . . . Alistair Cooke’s The Americans (Knopf, $10.95) is the third collection of the broadcaster’s radio talk-shows over the BBC . . . Glenn Dickey has written, in his The History of National League Baseball (Stein and Day, $12.95), what appears to be a very good, comprehensive book indeed . . . Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper (Rand McNally, $17.50), by Lloyd Wendt, will cause fond memories to rise in the hearts of admirers of the late Colonel Robert McCormick. But as Publishers Weekly puts it, “Under . . . McCormick, the paper became strongly anti-New Deal and isolationist, gaining a reputation as reactionary. That has all changed since 1955, and the Tribune stands today as a model of first-rank American journalism.” . . . Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (Random House, $17.95) is actually a volume of stories collected by Joseph Blotner, a Faulkner biographer . . . Ellen Goodman, a newspaper columnist specializing in “social” subjects, has made a book, Close to Home (Simon & Schuster, $9.95), of one hundred of her pieces. Clever, but trendy. —CW

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A Political Note: It takes a real poet—i.e., a perfervid imagination—to see any Kennedy as a servant, and here is Archibald MacLeish, Poet Laureate of the New Deal, calling Edward M. Kennedy “that rarest of senators, who is first and foremost a public servant.” And here is Henry Steele Commager, calling Teddy “a successor to John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster.” Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will have a hard time topping that one, though he will probably be asked to . . . Anyhow, all this from the editor and introducer of Our Day and Generation (Simon & Schuster, $12.95), a collection of the speeches of EMK. Coming in November.

More November Titles: The Music of Man (Methuen, $19.95), by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis, is based on an eight-part program aired by the Canadian Broadcasting system. It deals with the history and cultural impact of music . . . Alistair Cooke’s The Americans (Knopf, $10.95) is the third collection of the broadcaster’s radio talk-shows over the BBC . . . Glenn Dickey has written, in his The History of National League Baseball (Stein and Day, $12.95), what appears to be a very good, comprehensive book indeed . . . Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper (Rand McNally, $17.50), by Lloyd Wendt, will cause fond memories to rise in the hearts of admirers of the late Colonel Robert McCormick. But as Publishers Weekly puts it, “Under . . . McCormick, the paper became strongly anti-New Deal and isolationist, gaining a reputation as reactionary. That has all changed since 1955, and the Tribune stands today as a model of first-rank American journalism.” . . . Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (Random House, $17.95) is actually a volume of stories collected by Joseph Blotner, a Faulkner biographer . . . Ellen Goodman, a newspaper columnist specializing in “social” subjects, has made a book, Close to Home (Simon & Schuster, $9.95), of one hundred of her pieces. Clever, but trendy. —CW