Television: Nov. 19, 1965

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THE LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. The Welsh poet's penchant for mooching, thievery, drunkenness and womanizing is not spared; yet this fine biography is an affectionate portrait of the man "who may have sponged on his friends economically, but spiritually it was more the other way about."

CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra.

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer.

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