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THE COVER. When artist THORNTON UTZ returned to Sarasota after researching the cover idea at a University of Florida game, someone asked which team had won. "I think Florida lost, but I'm not sure," replied Utz. "I guess I'm more of a fan of the prancing girls than I am of football."

ARTICLES:
Don't Blame Your Parents (Speaking Out) ... By Dr. Vincent T. Lathbury.
Conflict of Interest ... By Ben H. Bagdikian & Don Oberdorfer.
GERALDINE PAGE: Diamond Who Likes It Rough ... By Bill Davidson. [NICE, 2 page article, with large photo!]
Why. I Quit the Ministry ... By an Anonymous Clergyman as told to Alfred Balk The Hidden Weaknesses of Communism ... By Edward Crankshaw.
Breezy Designs for the Office ... By James A. Skardon.
Eichmann and His Trial (Conclusion) ... By Gideon Hausner.
Gridiron Phantom ... By Al Stump. [Profile of Hugh Campbell, with photo]
"We Ditched at Sea". ... By Senior Master Sgt. Peter A. Foley.

FICTION: The Sand Pebbles (Part 1 of 3) ... By Richard McKenna.

DEPARTMENTS: Letters. Post Scripts. Hazel.< Editorials.

THE SAND PEBBLES. The facts behind the writing of the novel condensation which begins in this week's Post read almost like fiction. For most of his adult life 49-year-old Richard McKenna has been a sailor, not a writer. A native of Mountain Home, Idaho, he went into the Navy during the depression, served in China as a fireman on a Yangtze River gunboat during the '30's, and, after 22 years' naval duty, retired in 1953 as a chief machinist's mate. At the age of 40 McKenna entered the University of North Carolina. He made straight A's and Phi Beta Kappa, completed four years' credit in three, married university reference librarian Eva Grice immediately after graduation and began writing short stories. Undismayed by rejection slips, McKenna continued writing and started a novel based on accounts he had heard in China about the adventures of Yangtze River gunboats during the 1925 -- 27 Civil War. A New York literary agent, Rogers Terrill, kept encouraging McKenna through the lean years. "While I was learning to write, Terrill would try everything first at The Post, and this motivated me stro g1y, even though I got only rejection notes," says McKenna. When The Post purchased a McKenna story (HOUR OF PANIC, June 11, 1960), he was encouraged to work harder. He threw away the first 100 pages of his novel and started again. After earlier drafts had been rejected by several publishers, McKenna completed The Sand Pebbles last May, just in time to enter it in the 1963 Harper Prize Novel contest. Not only was it picked over 544 other entries for the $10,000 first prize and accepted for publication by Harper & Row, but it was chosen as next January's Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Movie rights have been sold to Mirisch Pictures for a reported $200,000. Unaffected by his success, McKenna, a quiet, five-foot-ten-inch, 200- pound Irishman, is now at home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, working on a new novel.

OTHER BY-LINES. Post editors Ben H. Bagdikian and Don Oberdorfer, both ex-newspapermen with wide backgrounds in Washington reporting, separate fact from recurrent fiction in their article about congressional conflicts of interest. In 1960 Oberdorfer was coauthor of a series of articles revealing abuses by some congressmen of their expense accounts. The furor started by the articles caused Congress to adopt new regulations for the spending of public funds.... Edward Crankshaw, correspondent for The London Observer, is one of the world's foremost authorities on Soviet affairs.... The Atlantic ditching described by Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Peter A. Foley was his second aviation near-disaster. Foley, now 45 and a reporter for Stars and Stripes in Germany, was a passenger in a military plane that ran out of fuel over Kentucky in 1945. Foley bailed out safely.
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