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EVENTS

Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of '' Science Abstracts ''

Bertrand Russell receives the Order Of Merit .

Jean-Paul Sartre completes his ''Les Chemins de la Liberté ( The Roads To Freedom )'' trilogy.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Aleph '' - Jorge Luis Borges

'' Alien Land '' - Willard W. Savoy

'' The Angry Wife '' - Pearl S. Buck

'' Beneath The Sky '' - Alfred Q. Jarrette

'' Beyond Earth's Gates '' - C. L. Moore

'' Bright Leaf '' - Foster Fitzsimmons

'' Cannibal '' - John Hawkes

'' Crooked House '' - Agatha Christie

'' The Dream Merchants '' - Harold Robbins

'' The Egyptian '' - Mika Waltari

'' Father Of The Bride '' - Edward Streeter

'' The Golden Sequence '' - Martha E. Von Almedingen

'' The Heat Of The Day '' - Elixabeth Bowen

'' King Of The Wind '' - Marguerite Henry

'' Let Love Come Last '' - Taylor Caldwell

'' Love In A Cold Climate '' - Nancy Mitford

'' Male And Female '' - Margaret Mead

'' The Man With The Golden Arm '' - Nelson Algren

'' Men Of Maize '' - Miguel Angel Asturias

'' The Miracles Of The Red Altar Cloth '' - Hermann L. Hunter

'' Nineteen Eighty-Four '' - George Orwell

'' Pride's Castle '' - Frank Yerby

'' A Rage To Live '' - John O'Hara

'' The Second Sex '' - Simone De Beauvoir

'' To Hell And Back '' - Audie Murphy

'' Shane '' - Jack Schaefer

'' The Sheltering Sky '' - Paul Bowles

'' A Town Like Alice '' - Nevil Shute

'' The Trial '' - Franz Kafka

'' Trouble With Harry '' - Jack Story

NEW DRAMA

T. S. Eliot - '' The Cocktail Party ''

Christopher Fry - '' The Lady's Not For Burning ''

Jean Genet - '' Haute Surveillance ''

Arthur Miller - '' Death Of A Salesman ''

NON-FICTION

Marc Bloch - ''Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940''

BIRTHS

January 26 - Jonathan Carroll , American Author of Fantasy Fiction

November 2 - Lois McMaster Bujold , American author of Science Fiction and Fantasy

DEATHS

January 11 - Nelson Doubleday , U.S. book publisher

February 11 - Axel Munthe , Swedish author

April 24 - Willa Cather , author

May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet & playwright

June 10 - Sigrid Undset , Nobel Prize winning author

June 14 - Russell Doubleday , U.S. author and publisher

August 16 - Margaret Mitchell , "Gone with the Wind" author

September 19 - Will Cuppy , U.S. humorist

December 7 - Rex Beach - U.S. author

December 28 - Hervey Allen - U.S. author

AWARDS

, ''King of the Wind''

Nobel Prize For Literature - William Faulkner

, ''Death of a Salesman''

, ''Guard of Honor''

, ''Terror and Decorum''