PIED PIPER—Nevil Shute—Morrow ($2.50). Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the ...
ON THE BEACH (320 pp.)—Nevil Shute—Morrow ($3.95). The small powers—Albania and Egypt —started the last of all wars, but the big powers finished it. A-bombs H-bombs, massive cobalt bombs obliterated ...