POLAND: Literary Briefs

For the edification of Communist Poland's literary set, Warsaw's daily Express Wieczorny published its own list of bestsellers in the U.S. book trade. No. 1: Ernest Hemingway's saga of a fisherman and a marlin, The Old Man and the Sea—"A tale of rampant sexualism." No. 2: Whittaker Chambers' Witness—"Memoirs of a former FBI agent."

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