• Books: Next fall’s interesting- looking lightweights include Dorothy Middleton’s Victorian Lady Travellers, collection of seven biographical sketches (Dutton, September, $4.95) ; one by Dervla Murphy, evidently a modern lady traveler, entitled Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (Dutton again, September, $4.95) ; Ian Fleming: The Spy Who Came in with the Gold, biography by Henry A. Zeiger (Duell, November) ; a history of the Salvation Army in America, Born to Battle, by Mrs. Brigadier Sallie Chesham (Rand McNally, October, $5.95)…. Any of the above should help restore flagging humors after the reader has put down such delights as Invitation to an Inquest, Walter and Mariam Schneir’s review of the Rosenberg thing and Lordy! it was all a Terrible Mistake not to mention a right-wing plot (Doubleday, $5.95) ; or mayhap The MacArthur Controversy, updated edition of Rovere and Schlesinger’s 1951 The General and the President now subtitled, who knows why, “The Future of American Foreign Policy” (Farrar, Straus; September)…. The late Mac Hyman’s (No Time for Sergeants) novel, Take Now Thy Son, will be published posthumously by Simon & Schuster in October.
• Movies Imminent: Shooting of the Stagecoach remake has started. Gordon Douglas directs; along for the ride are such as Ann-Margret, Red Buttons, Bing Crosby, Bob Cummings, Van Heflin and (riding shotgun, no doubt) Slim Pickens. . . . Next espionage comedy is The Fat Spy, with Jack E. Leonard, Phyllis Diller, Jayne Mansfield, George Raft and a pop-rock combo yclept The Wild Ones, whom producer Joe Cates borrowed from Sybil Burton’s discothèque. . . . Also in the works is a film of Doctor Doolittle. Alan Jay Lerner was signed to handle book and lyrics, but has been replaced by Leslie Bricusse, who did The Roar of the Greasepaint, etc. . . . The stars are Lillian Gish, Vera Miles and Fred MacMurray. The book was Mackinlay Kantor’s God and My Country, about the Boy Scouts.
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