Time Listings: Oct. 1, 1965

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MRS. JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to the Bohemian girl. A very readable biography.

LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa?

THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish wit.

SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfred Sheed. Hounded by his wife and bored to death by the suburb of Bloodbury, Sheed's hero sets out to discover the world of the beats. He does, and is lucky to escape, gratefully, with his sanity intact.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 3. Hotel, Hailey (2) 4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3) 5. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 6. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (6) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. The Ambassador, West (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8)

NONFICTION

1. Intern, Doctor X (1) 2. The Making of the President, 1964, White (2) 3. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (3) 4. Games People Play, Berne (6) 5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4) 6. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (9) 7. Markings, Hammarskjold (5) 8. Never Call Retreat, Carton (7) 9. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis 10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln