BOOKS: Success Story

EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY — Gertrude Stein—Random House ($3).

When The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas became a best seller (1933), Gertrude Stein discovered that it was ''very nice being a celebrity a real celebrity who can decide who they want to meet and say so and they come or do not come as you want them." She also discovered that she liked to make money ("Just at present my passion is avarice"), that she loved the U. S., loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times...

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