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The Super-Americans, by John Bainbridge. Oil billions and all Texas still fascinate, and the author's report on the state and its native inhabitants is a fine example of malicious objectivity.
Horace Walpole, by Sheldon Wilmarth Lewis. The author provides a diverting study of the 18th century fop and litterateur, a man whose triviality of mind amounted to genius.
Scrap Irony, by Felicia Lamport. Humorous verse with an unusual twist: frequently it is funny.
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. Regardless of what form, or formlessness, the author's projected chronicle of the Glass family may take, this segment of it —consisting of two related stories dealing with Franny Glass's fascination with the far shores of prayer—will endure as a glowing minor work.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week)
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3)
4. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (5)
5. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (4)
6. Spirit Lake, Kantor (7)
7. Little Me, Dennis (6)
8. The Judas Tree, Cronin (9)
9. Clock Without Hands, McCullers (8)
10. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (10)
NONFICTION
1. Living Free, Adamson (3)
2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (1)
3. The Making of the President 1960, White (2)
4. My Life in Court, Nizer (7)
5. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (6)
6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (4)
7. I Should Have Kissed Her More, King (5)
8. The Coming Fury, Catton (8)
9. Calories Don't Count, Taller
10. Larousse Gastronomique, Montagne (9)
*All times E.S.T.