Variety (November 1960)

Wednesday, November 2$, 1960 USfnETY U1KRATI 69 . H. Allen SmlthV. Projects “Hoav f Write . Without Know¬ ing Nothinjg,” dealing with seman¬ tic and the . Atrieriean slanguage, is the first, of H. Allen; Smith’s next six book commitments which; in¬ clude' first-time attempt at a juvenile and also.. “To Hell In A Handbasket” which he calls ’’a . jpaichw rk autobiography.’’ •‘Knowing Nothing'’ is for Little, Brown - and precedes the Double- day auipbi.bg/ Accent on the iiiitial wilt be. •’use. and• misuse, of language w ith; nrany. -hiiariqus’ ex- niples.'’* A', chapter'will, be devoted to. Sime Silverman, founder-editor of Variety, and the- paper i'self. The memoir' will cull autobi- Craphic-ai chapters and bits, out ' all . rnith’s'earlier. . -offprint ok's.. rewritten, and in some cases ■:nbeli.ishe<i;“Jemiiiy;” is the juve¬ nile; The other three, projects a travel book ‘Little; Brown*; “The C heese Box’’ 1 tentative.title!, book Of, unrelated essays and 'articles'., .including'.those Smith lias written for the Variety Anniversary Num¬ ber.;, and •• A Journal,of a Tour of the Republic; This book was - sug¬ gested to him long -ago. by the late IT. L. Mencken,. accent on the Pacific. Northwest' and Alaska/ ... Smith has written about the length and breadth of the U. S.- excepting, this -- to him new*, territory. Pepe Romero's 2d Rook Pcpe. Roinero; columnist on the Mexico City News and former ..Variety stringer there.; ''in.;.' New. Yink last ,w eek to close' a deal .w ith Doubled ay. publication of a book, tentatively, entitled' “Mcxico- C’ilv at.'Midnight.’;' It'll be'-his second me, , first having been ‘•Jumping Bean” published in. 1953 by .Putnain.. Romero just closed a successful one-man show' of his paintings at .1 lie Misrachi Galleries;Mexico City, which .featured 'a, seil.es. of abstract- paintings with Mexican themes. 50th wCddirig anniversary^ ...Wein¬ berg, is .business manager of the Jewish Advocate,. Boston. . Known as “The. Abraham and ■Sarah'''‘Weisberg; Fellowship En¬ dowment' Fund,’? the fund will sub¬ sidize a ^graduate student or. facul¬ ty member. He will serve as techr nical . aciy.iscr t.o. the student-spOn- sored publications .on the campus, The Weisbei g family., stressed, the fimd will not be used to alter or in any way influence the editorial content; of Bfandei.s student publi¬ cations? It will, they id, hei em¬ ployed only to assist-iii the techni¬ cal aspects oi t|ie publications con¬ cerned; Trjb’s ‘Lively Arts’ Bow . : N, Y. Herald Tribune integrated its Sunday entertainment, section and. Book Review brio a . single Sunday section titled “The. Lively Arts’’ -and unveiled the ’.riew de¬ partment Sunday *20) . the ac¬ companiment of heavg aciyertising tile preceding week in Competing newspapers. ^ • ... New secti -tab-sized,,, covers theatre 1 VValler Kerr)., films . ‘ Paul Beckiey). m u si c\ -'Paul Henry Langr, clanc dAValter 'Terryi;. art: iEmily Genaucr), records (Herbert.: Kupferberg. Also features by John Crosby, Job. Hyains*. Art Buclnyald, Kenneth. Tynan , fr m London and. Others. Television is treated light¬ ly* since Trib is continuing : its pocket-sized Sunday tv supple-, ment.. John K. .Hutchins c.6nt%ues as chief book reviewer. . . Judith Crist,., vet Trib reporter, heads up the overall section with title. Editor of the Arts; Book Stocks ..(As o/.JVot?rl5, I960, closing) Allyii & Bacon (OC) : , ,27 + 3 American Book <ASL Book of Month (NY),. .19 Li if V » Conde Nast (NY) I Crdwell-ColHcr (NY) Grolier (OC) ilarc’tj Brace (OC) called “Four Against the Mob” to be published by Popular Library. Fraley, with. Mrs. Stella Crater, lias authored a book, “The. Empty Robe;*’ the story of Judge Crater to be on the Doubleday list; i* Belmont Books will publish “Meet; the Mob” by Frank Mul- lad.v, ex-New Y'ork detective, and 11 — <2 ;36 : ‘srf i-'k .39 -f 1»4 . 33 .j. 33s | William H. Kofped; consists of a llearst (6cV j miseries of profiles in depth .on some Holt; R&W (NY) .51 3*4 : oT America’s biggest mobsters. L.X. Times Mirror (QC) 24»: 2 ■ Dick Groat,.captain of tlie Pitts- •Macfadden (AS).. 10 — .•> burgh Pirates, 'and Bill. Surface ; Macmillan (OC) . 58 + 5 ! have, sold a book on the Pirates to McCall (NY) _ : 34 1 «+ I? 4 i Coward-McCann. McGraw-Hill (NY).. .. 98 + 1 The. “Ninth Life*” a, hush-hush New Yorker (OC) 94 -f 1 /project by Milt Machlin and Billy Prentice-Hall (AS). 38 3 s+. 2"s Woodfield, is on the Putnam list. Ran’m House (OC) 33 + 3 T n; Popular Publications, entering H. W. Sams (M) 34 if- 1 -z the' pocketbook field, has a book on Western Pub. (M>701 v-f 1 World Pub (M)_.". 12'vs-^ Stop A New. Wave? Tlie. object pies jiiablv of a dust yket is to lure a book-buyer'into buying a book, but this one is a repellent. The title in giant type •.;; : “Ho\v To Write 10 Different Best Sellers. Now In . Your Spare Time .And Become The First Author On Your Block Unless * title, continued n back) There’s An Author Al¬ ready Living Qri Your Block In Which- Case You’ll Become The Second Author Ori Youi .Block And hat’s Okay Too . And Other Stories,” It’s by George Kirgo, a tv playwright who has looked at too lriny stills of Ernie-Kpvacs. This Windy and dull gag is re¬ peated four limes befote the book gets under Avay and.all but ruins a fairly lively and funny bobk. Obvi¬ ously nobody gets . fired around .Simon & Schuster the. Eisen¬ hower administration but .some¬ body, oiight to get a severe letter of fepriniahd before this diist jacket riOpsen'se sweeps the eou - fry and becomes as repulsive as 3960 campaign “literature.’’ ' Scul. Tom Weatherly's Poems .Bi'odwaypublicist-producer-poet To; Weatherly, '-whose show . hiz verse lias appeared regularly in Variety, is putlin , m between coyefs;; Bobk will .be titled “Broadway Ballails;.; . .. New-YArker cartoonist R-: Taylor • is' doing the illustfations. Literary agent; Jan Foley arranged the; col¬ laboration. famous show’ biz. personality scheduled and written by Bill Sur- . f’gc.e. At the moment, the name of OGT—Ovcr-the-Counter ■ the personality is being kept under - ;N..Y,—rN.Y; Stock Exchange. wwaps. "Putting on the Dog,” a . ..AS—American Stock. Exchange -cb.neetion of dog photos by Mary . IVij-iYlidwest i Eleanor Brow ning, with captions Note: .Midwest arid bver-the-! by;Paul Keyes, head writer for Jack Counter quotes the Bid ! Paar will be a Citadel book. The prices: : dog pictures are used regularly on tlie Parr show. •' ' ' Leo Guild has a book in work on Reinhold, has-been the daily’s chie::; gambling called “How to Win a le.nsnian since his return fiom - Million Dollars in Gambling." .World War'll-service. j A1 Ostrow, of .the Cleveland . ^— j Press, doing a book, with Doc Montpelier's 2d Foldo iGeiber, coroner of Cleveland. Tlie .Montpbfier *Vt.) Post has called “Medical Detective.” Agenlcd ceased publication for the second . by II. W, Kelliek. iini since it was founded, last. A.newU.B. Information Agency July. Tlius Montpelier once...more; monthly, called Span, is now be- becomes -the only state capital in ling published in Indi in English, .tlie United States without its own Initial press run this month was daily newspaper; A previous, daily, ; 47,000 copies, most of which are the Montpelier Argtis. was merged ! being distributed free to civic with the Barre Times before the.'leaders* government officials, edi- Post started its .short an$ rocky tors etc. career; ; Press self-regulation will be es- Henry F. Evans, publisher, was i tablished soon in. Austria, Editors . Mftsmanno’s Eichmann. Book Maf rae-Si ith will publish “The Nuremberg . Trial of Eichmann’s Murder Baftalions'’ ..-written by .Pennsylvania. S.upreriie Court Jus- Michaol AIMusmanno. , ^ justice Musmahno presided over the trial, of 23 leaders of the ] “Eirisatzgruppen;”, the ; Eichmann rhandpicked organization charged, .with killing 1.000 000 . men,^wonieri. a|id children by firing ysqiiads. fourteen, of. tli Nazis were put to death and: the. remainder'lo long jail terms. ' not immediately available for coin- merit, but Sanford F. Harrington of South . Barre, co-owner of. the Post, indicated the riew suspension of publicatibn w: “final,” and journalists have agreed to set up a “Control Office” consisting of one. member each plus 4 one ap¬ pointed by the Ministry of Interior as “the . reader’s representative.” Office will have only moral rights to comdefliri misuse of idlnfrFStic principles. Overseas Press Chib moves up ] Texas’ ‘Obscenity* indictments A federal'Grand'-j-ufy. seeking to kebp pornography out . of north Texas, indicted; t w o otit state paperback ; distributors a ri d a phonograph record supplier. It charges Newport News iVa.V and Chicago, concerns with transporting obscene paperback books to news¬ stands in Ft,Worth, Tex. The phonograph man, Irving W. 'Kregal,. Hollywood, who does biz as “Hollywood J o k e r s.”was charged with mailing advertise¬ ments foi: his goods to Dallas last •May; . Tlie book distiibutors are Max A. Goldstein and . Dominion News Co., Iric-, of Newport News; arid fh W. ;F. Hall Printing Co. and Joseph, Bur ten of Chicago.. The Virginia concern. was cited for sending at least 4.60 copies of “filthy”' books to this area, Hali Printing and Biirteri, whose- ho.nie is in Oxford, N;J.. are charged w'iih sending similar books.. U.S.:Attorney ;W. B. Best 3d, said the, publishers of . Fabian . .Books Lid., Saber Books arid Vega Books, all of . Fresno. Calif., had already been indicted. Books’ Byproduct Values An example of the bypjroduct values of book: publishing (seriaii- zaiion, paperbacks' 'etc.) is pointed Ap by tvyo show biz memoifs, the 4 -sa Zsa Gabor (by Gprold Frank) and ° Marilyn Monroe (by Maurice ZolQtpw-); books; Both: have been just fair..sellersi“.Zsa Zsa” perhaps • a shade nibre, claiming three print- j ing§ (World Pub.), while ‘‘Marilyn. • Moi|roe” (Harcpurt, Brace) is Only j around the. 10,000 mark although, wifh t he. recent iriarital split of, the ‘ Arthur Millers, .there has been evi¬ dence' of jsome sales upbeat. Y j ' However, both were serialized in advance in McCall’s and both have Iliad strong byproduct . Incomes ! from other rights. Fawcett .paid ! S67.500. for the paperback fights to ]-the Gabor book and Bantam Books ’ gave an advance of $30,000 for • “M.M;’*. Latter, fetched $3,500 from ’the German serialization rights : alone and has been sold to book | houses in ..Germany, England, : France and Italy, with-the Scan- j dinavian countries probably to fol- llow,. McCaH’s mag’ paid $100,000 ••" for the“Z.sa Zsa” digest, (fepqrted- Jy only aboiit half that for . the • Mpriioe rights) and the Gabor biog [.will also get wide foreign distfibjuV tion. Student Papers’ Fellowship;. Brandeis U;, Waltham, Mass., has announced establishment of. a unique $25,000 ieliowship to fur¬ ther techniques q£ printing produc¬ tion in student sponsored publica¬ tions. The Fellowship was created by the iariiily of Mr. and Mrs. Abraharii Weisberg. of Brookline, Mass.,' ;> iir “liofior of the couple’^: Gehman's Homecoming . Richard Gehman, prolific slick iriag ebutrib; returns borne to Lan¬ caster, Pa., this week (25). t o launch his latest book, “Let; Not tlie Heart Be Troubled” . (McGraw-Hill) with autograph party at downtown L. B, Herr & Co. booksellers. .. Latest vbluriie is result'of joint effort by Gehman; and. Richard K. Reinhold, chief photog ; for Lan¬ caster Intelligencer journal, [ Who flew around die world last year, taking an . objective; look at re- ligipiis missionary efforts . and. effects, particularly in the Far East. / ,j Gehnian arid Reinhold are old school buddies.. The former went] to freelancing, after, a brief repor- foilai Career eh ^ Jntell-Journal. J Bobbs-Merrill Expands . Bobbs-YIerrili Co., Indianapblis, hks acquired, the elementary schop't; . .- . .. , - , - rpublishifig properties of 'Chafle^.<''^T c ' m East 39th St., New. York, to : :Scribner's, Sons. Ronald P; Hobbk : !£ e IT-story stnicttn-e -occupied by formerly executive vicepresidenl Republican Club at ,of Rinehart, became exec veep. *. ! °4. W. 40th St., facing Bryant Park, 5 Other new; members of the.execu-, as ,v S new headquarters. GOPers i live, staff include. Dr. Led Cans, , ui y; f? e t other hq. forhierly vieepresident arid editor;. Ground was broken last week jin chief; of. American Book: CO.; : a new- eight-story Time & Life - Lucius, Lamar., formerly riianager ® £?■'Mf^Snon. Pans. :of the educational division of : ,T^ e ! |. ie s ^ditm’-in- Seribners: William, H; Y. Hackett' £)? Ief of T World Pub; and shea rs Jr., formerly executive editor of Kask, p.n. director of dit- the Rinehart college- department; i will Xmas an Paris, flying over and Claude Baldwin McCaleb, for-:P ec ‘ t 18 - -Targ’s-lw 0 daughters are mer chief editor of John Wiley & ;? n sc ^ 00 ^ Aix-les-Bains, which Sons [ is among other reasons for the hol- _____ j iday visit. Plugging H-T’s New Mag ^GrQsseL& .punlap has^released -da -a Yi- , 7. , I Don McNeill s Family Album of advertisingjFavorite .Hymns” ($3.95), eompila- ll ? e Herald T ri 5 U ne. : tiop 0 f hymns sung over the years to projec its npw Lively Arts Sun- |b n ABC’s “Breakfast Club.” Pub- day suppleinent, under amusement lish e r> incidentally, is one of Mc- editor Judith Crist s direction, the j Neiirs sp 0 nsors.. paper’s Broadway columnist . and | Happily-timed: in. view of, but editor of: _• the TV Magazine, Hy l obviously coincident with, the mar- Gardner, jidr a whmlwmd 10-shots j ital bustup headlines is Playboy tour around; the radio and tv .cir - 1 ' - - cult- in Gotham. As a seasoned, hand in the medium, with his own Saturday, night video program (he also subbed for the ailing Walter Winchell in recent weeks, doing part of that program), the man¬ agement asked Gardner to do the mike shilling; Meantime. Robert ,M.. White 2 d, who is returning to the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger as eo-editor and co¬ publisher. of his father's paper, resigned as president arid editor of the N. Y. Herald Tribune in anticipation of Ainbassador to Great Britain John Hay Whitney returning to- assume that post ac¬ tively. Jock Whitney is dominant owner of the paper., ‘Americanize Canada Reading?’ . The circumstances arid status of the magazine publishing business in Canada is being . probed • by a Corn mission on Publications, set up in Ottaw by the federal gov- ernnierit. Chairman is M; Grattan O’Leary, editor of the Ottawa Journal; ■ Chief beef of .Canadian briefs seem to be that United States pub¬ lications, via Canadian editions, Canadian inserts: or just plain big- riess on Canadian newsstands, are “to Americanize Canadian reading habits,” Hearings of the commis¬ sion are continuing; CHATTER , Milt Machlin promoted from article, editor to managing editor of Argosy riiagazine, Oscar Fraley; UPI columnist arid author' of “The Untouchables^,” will hav« ji£w .book on Eliot Hess mag’s four-page spread on Marilyn Monroe" in its December issue. That famed calender pose is in¬ cluded. Star, by the way, was the publication’s first “playmate.” John Freeman, a leading British tv interviewer who is moderator ] of BBC-TV’s “Face lo Face" has j been named editor of tlie New ! Statesman and Nation, a leading ! political and literary weekly, lie [ is expected to give up most, if not • all, his tv assignments when he takes up his new appointment in the New Year. | John Watson, associated with Scot indie tv since its start three years ago, is quitting his desk as [script editor to reenter'the pub- j fishing Held. He will be an editor j with World Distributors Ltd., a I subsidiary of the British News of , the World group. j University Pre.ss Book Club Inc. j authorized to conduct a publishers , and printers business in New York. Jane Geisman, ex-Funk & Wag- nails and ex-Crowell, i§ now pub- promolion manager for World Pub. Co., while Eleanor Kask *Mrs. Bill Targ), wife of the firm's <*ditor-in- chief, continues as director ol that department. Jean Sonkin.*ex-F&VV and 4 ?x-S&S, is Miss Geisman .i as- , sistant. j Flora May Holly, 92, author's j rep, died at her home in Stamiprd, ; Nov. 19. She organized the firsf^ j book-and-author luncheon svfies ; there in 1921 and was organizer [and charter member of the Con¬ necticut Pioneer Branch of the .\’a- [tional League of American Pen j Woinen. At the turn of the century | slie opened her own literary agency j on Nev/ York’s 5th Ave. aftei hav¬ ing -been assistant editor of the old Bookman Magazine where, among other upcoming authors at the time, she aided Theodore Dreiser and Edna' Ferhbr. Seymour Berkson M e m o i 1 a 1 Scholarship at Columbia Univ.* named in honor of the late pub¬ lisher of £he N. Y. Journal Ameri¬ can, was ^presented this week to Gerald Re? Craven. U. of Cal.* and resident pf Lakew’ood, Cal. ArnoldHShaw’s unauthorized biog : of “Belafonte” just released in j paperback by Pyramid. Ralph McGill, editor and pub- (lisher of the Atlanta Constitution, i awarded an honorary doctor of laws j degree at Colby College, Waler- i vil’f, Me,, in conjunction with his ‘ winning the 1960 Lovejoy Fellow [ Award. The award was given McGill, a 1959 Pulitzer Prizewin¬ ner, for his contributions to tft American press. Robert E. L. Stri- der, president of the college, cited him as “a true philosopher . . . with the ability to see both sides of controversial questions.” Channel Press is promoting the Margaret Ernst-James Thurber book, “In a Word,” via free tickets to Thurber’s legiter, “The Thurber Carnival,” for book dealers who set up Thurber displays between now and the end of the year. Deal¬ ers are receiving blowups of the¬ atrical-page ads for the show and other display materials. "Serious and probing,"* . a life story that separates fact from fiction and finds the real Marilyn Monroe even more fasci¬ nating than the myth. *. and, at the same time, a remarkable picture of the career-building and moVie^making processes of Hollywood. Illustrated with 50 photographs $5.75 at all bookstores ffl HARCOURT, BRACE •Associated Press