Books: Typewriter Tycoon

A SUMMER PLACE (369 pp.)—Sloan Wilson—Simon & Schuster ($4.50).

This novel keeps the reader in suspense at the end of every chapter—waiting for the soap commercial. Can Molly Jorgenson and Johnny Hunter, teen-age lovers and troubled children of divorce, find lasting happiness by racing the stork to the altar? Will Johnny's mother Sylvia desert her alcoholic husband, with his blue-blood pedigree and red-ink bank balance, for an adulterous affair with Molly's self-made millionaire father? Is life a game of second chance or an inescapably heir-conditioned nightmare?

The answers to these and sundry other questions...

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