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THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. A literary wonder: the author's fourth collection of short stories in as many years, and they are excellent.
THE ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist.
THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, by Joan Aiken. Children may have to wait until their parents finish reading this sly and delightful melodrama in which ravening wolves are the least of the Victorian villains that beset the two young heroines.
DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson dreamed of an ideal "creative marriage" and tried to find it with Novelist Sinclair Lewis. Vincent Sheean watched the dream turn to nightmare; his comments on Dorothy's letters and diaries help explain how it happened.
THE FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. Rivera confounded capitalists and Communists alike with his preposterous stories and visionary murals, but Biographer Wolfe wisely takes the artist's exuberant imagination as the surest cue to the man and his work.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3)
4. The Three Sirens, Wallace (6)
5. The Living Reed, Buck (5)
6. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (7)
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (8)
8. Caravans, Michener (4)
9. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (9)
10. Our Lady of the Flowers, Genet
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (2)
3. Rascal, North (3)
4. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky
5. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (4)
6. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (6)
7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (8)
8. The Education of American Teachers, Conant
9. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (5)
10. The Pooh Perplex, Crews
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