Alma Werdon's story places the powerful bank vice-president Milton King under microscopic examination as he plays puppet master and moves his subordinates about the carpeted and chromed stage of his establishment. The strings he pulls affect the lives of half a dozen people. They include two of his employees whose future careers in the banking circles depend upon his personal acceptance or rejection. Just as cattle, oxen, and other beasts of burden were used in early times for bartering an...

MOUNTAIN ORGY Rita was just a houseguest at the Kirbys' mountain cabin; a pleasant outing from the orphanage. Until two escaped convicts broke in—armed to the teeth and horny as hell!

The appearance of Reluctant Wives by Mande Woljar, the famed literary figure of the Eastern European equivalent of the "Now Generation," is another milestone in the history of American publishing, rivaled in this century by only the phenomenon of Vladimir Nabokov, Russia-born author who also made the remarkable transition from his native tongue to English, in his case with that unequaled literary achievement entitled Lolita. Miss Woljar, whose dual career as novelist and consultant to the ...