European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday october 4, 1985 literary list raising some eyebrows from press dispatches British critics have produced their Choice of the top 20 american novels published since world War ii. Raising a few literary eyebrows across the Atlantic. The Lim. Confined i living writers was drawn up by a pane of three writers ind critics for the Book mar Ket ini1. Council. It includes a few obvious choices alongside lesser known works and ignores some of the ape s acknowledged masterpieces Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow is there alongside Ralph Ellison s invisible Man " Joseph Heller is included but for something happened rather than his War satire "cateh-22." Mary Gordon s men and which has Only recently been published and has not been widely re viewed was preferred to her Best seller final pay . Salinger author of the Catcher in the Rye does t appear at All while some of Hose who do Are Small change five year old Akk Iuviene of Spencertown n.y., sent the new York state tax collector All his worldly wealth a Quarter a dim and three pennies toying he wanted to help in paying garbage col Letort and firemen and for Highway repairs. Gov. Mario Cuomo returned Nick s Money along with a two Page letter of thanks. Less than household words. Waller Abish s Brilliant satire on postwar West Germany How iceman is it is on inc list along with the acc of Lions by William caddis and song of Solomon by Lom panellists critic Hermione be and novelist critics Mehan Bragg and Malcolm Bradbury were asked to include Little known works and some Black and female women made the list one of them Black. The other Black chosen is Ellison. The list in alphabetical order Abish How Ger Man is it Saul Bellow. Hum Boldys gift Paul Bowles the sheltering sky Ellison. Invisible Man Gaddis the recognitions Gordon men and Angels Elizabeth Hardwick sleepless nights Heller something happened George v. Higgins. The friends of Eddie Coyle Rachel ing Al mrs. Caliban Alison Lurie. The War be tween the talks Mailer the Deer Park Bernard Malamud the assistant Morrison. Song of Solo Mon Pynchon. Gravity s Rainbow Roth the ghost writer Isaac a Shevis Singer. The slave John Updike. Rabbit run Gore Vidal Myra Brick Enridge and Eudora Welty losing Battles. Real we Ain t a off com a Survey comparing Colorado gov. Richard Lamm with the muddle headed chief executive on to s Ben son found that most Lamm staffers thought their Boss was no comedian but his office could Supply material for a comedy episode. A los Angeles based Public relations firm is Survey ing governors offices around the nation to find out How closely fact and fiction Mirror each other. Nine of the 17 Lamm staffers who responded to the Survey by Rogers & Cowan inc. Said they believe that theatrics is an important ingredient in successful poli ticking. Two said no and six said it was at eleven said Lamm is out As a comedian. One said he was funny and four would not say. Thirteen said inc Lamm office could make a Hila rious situation comedy episode for fifteen of hem said there was a Little Ham in every politician. New Ashley flagship store with a memorial Spray of wildflowers in the window the new flagship store of the Laura Ashley fashion Empire opened in London eight Days after the designer s death. The debut of the store in Oxford circus in one of the choicest business locations in the British capital was delayed by Ashley s death sept. 17 at age 60 Alicr a fall at her daughter s West England Home. The Welsh born Ashley and her husband Bernard started printing fabrics on the Kitchen table of their London apartment in 1953. Her designs based on the Romance of the English coun try Garden proved immensely popular and three decades later the Laura Ashley Empire has 181 shops around the world and annual sales of More than is 40 million. She was very excited about this shop at Oxford circus and was very much looking toward to its open ing a company spokesman said. We know that mrs. Ashley would have wanted us to go ahead " Back in the saddles again rider Joachim Jaeckel stands balanced on the tact Dies of two horses who Lope in unison during a trick exercise at the traditional Parade of the Hetsun state stud farm stallions in Dillenburg Germany. The store s Slaff of 90, dressed in typical Edwardi an style Laura Ashley blouses and skills sipped Cham pagne before inc opening. Bernard Ashley the company s chairman was not present and was said to have gone on vacation Afler his wife s funeral. In a window of the new shop she was remembered with a display of wildflowers placed in two vases. A whale of a father Shamu the killer whale has become a father with the delivery of a 6-foot, 350-Pound calf at sea world in Orlando Fla. We re delighted ecstatic said Linny h. Cornell sea world vice president and zoological director after the birth by 2.5-ton Kandy. The yet unnamed female calf May grow to be 25 meet Long and weigh 10 tons. It was the first birth of a killer whale at any of sea world s three Parks but there have been others born in Captivity Cornell said. Shamu the 27-year-old Star performer at the new $18 million Shamu stadium in Orlando was not at sea world for the event. He has been summering Insan Diego. A combination you can t beat the pleasure of Golf the pleasure of travel the pleasure of vacation get your copy today Price s3 now on Sale at most
