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10 Section Waterloo Courier Mar, 19, 198? What's caoimig Dim music books Book reviews Top mysteries of the month books of Eneland. The Antiauarian Book is still and witty, but this Mario Balzic, police chief of Rocksburg, a failing Pennsylvania mining town, is time Kallen sidles into everyday horror. Greenfield, curmudgeonly editor of a small-town newspaper, finds his valued routine upset when his maid The very first day on the job, her replacement is beaten to death. Greenfield and his star reporter, Maggie Rome, investigate and uncover knots of fear and hate in their own small town. Kallen makes this grim, surreal tale somehow urbane and entertaining.

"SATURDAY of Glory" won England's John Creasey Memorial Prize for best crime novel of 1979. Ostensibly a police procedural set in post-Franco Spain, it explores human guile and resourcefulness. Its hero is Supt. Luis Bernal of Madrid's Criminal Brigade, a cunning, unhappy man who investigates the death of journalist Raul Santos, whose fall from a -balcony smacks more of murder than suicide. Bernal's tour through the iniimalic'e lifa tilAO Mm Snln HnAwtA By Connie Fletcher Field News Service Fright is where you find it.

You might pick up a good scare on a subway platform or in your grocer's freezer. Like death, fear comes "like a thief in the night" or like your boss peering over your shoulder. The scariest mysteries this month put fear on the map of everyday life. K.C. Constantine demonstrates some gruesome organic gardening in "The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes." Jonathan Ross, in "A Rattling of Old Bones," puts a real skeleton in a closet, then lets it out to wreak havoc on the living.

Roy Harley Lewis lets Death thumb through rare books in "A Cracking of Spines." Lucille Kallen's "C.B. Greenfield: No Lady in the House" proves it's hard to keep good household help when maids are bludgeoned to death, and David Serafin's "Saturday of Glory" makes paranoia seem a sane reaction to modern life. "THE MAN Who Liked Slow Tomatoes" (David R. Godine) is a standout, even among this month's frightfully good thrillers. Constantine's novel about sellers Association consults Matthew Coll, an ex-spy turned bookseller, and we're treated to some great biff-boff action in stuffy surroundings: university libraries, bookshops, stately homes.

"A RATTLING Of Old Bones" (Scribner's) will shake you up, for the moral of this creepy tale is that skeletons in the closet don't lie still they dance and rattle at the worst possible times. Ross' skeleton is the mummified corpse of a murdered woman, Judith Quint, found quietly rotting in a closet by a small-time burglar. The discovery looses the secret Detective Supt. George Rogers has harbored for five years: He and Judith, both married toothers, once were lovers. Rogers' investigation is intensified by his complicated reactions to the corpse and his need to clear himself of the murder.

LUCILLE KALLEN, who used to write skits for Sid Caesar, weds drop-dead humor with mystery in her C.B. Greenfield capers. Her third, "C.B. Greenfield: No Lady in the House" (Wyndham) itself like a descent into a coal mine: Things get darker and stranger, and a chill slices through you. Chief Balzic investigates a routine missing-persons case.

The person who has skipped out of his own life is ne'er-do-well Jimmy Romanelli, who went from the mines to unemployment and drug dealing in a few hard months. Constantine uses the routine of police work and the daily grind of the mining town as a gray backdrop for a tragedy that ends in murder, suicide and madness, and a tomato crop that flourishes on human flesh. THE TITLE of "A Cracking of Spines" (St. Martin's) by a specialist in rare books, refers to two misadventures: What happens to the spine of a book when it is mishandled and what happens to the spine of a human when he is dropped from a great height. Lewis' thriller updates the old body-in-the-library plot with a delicious dash of the macabre.

Someone is pinching the great rare jvuniHiiw wn nun 111 iv iu cafes, theaters and back alleys, and leads him to a bizarre political plot and a confrontation of his own fears. Music review Minnie Pearl leads a double life By Dick Kleiner NEA HOLLYWOOD-According to the most famous country girl of them all, there's no such thing as a country girl any more. The lady in question is Minnie Pearl, who says that all these modem conve-niences-the television and the telephone--are conspiring to turn every country-born person into a sophisticate. She says kids from her home, town of Grinder Switch are as sophisticated as kids from New York. IN TRUTH, as nearlv everyone knows by now, Minnie Pearl is really Sarah Ophelia Colley, an intelligent, college-bred girl from Centerville, Tenn.

Today she is Mrs. Henry Cannon, and, as her 70th birthday approaches, she is thinking about retiring. "Henry wants me to retire," she says. "He thinks it's time I took it a bit easier. but that was the place she was actually born." Minnie is now more than 40 years old, a solid fixture in the entertainment world.

MINNIE DOES silly things, but Sarah is a bright, sedate, sophisticated woman. She started out wanting to be a serious' actress and she says there is a still some traces of that ambition left. While she undoubtedly loves Minnie Pearl, and is grateful to her for all the material things she has contributed to Sarah Cannon's life, there are times when that love and gratitude is difficult to dredge up. "Minnie's costume," she says, "has been both a crutch and a deterrent to me. Nowadays, I'm trying to work without it--lately, I just use the hat (with the price tag dangling from it) That way, I can be more myself, and less her." But I don't know-I like to work." Actually, Minnie (and Sarah) love performing.

She says she gets a high out of it, literally. "Why, just last Saturday night, I did the Chamber of Commerce banquet in Wagner, Okla. There were 400 or so people in the school gym. And as soon as I came out, there it was, the same old high. It was wonderful.

Her life has been a good one, as she says in her autobiography, "Minnie Pearl," which she wrote in collaboration with Joan Dew. SARAH CANNON talks about Minnie Pearl in conversation as though Minnie were a friend, rather than herself in costume. She always calls Minnie "she" and "her," rather than "me" and "She was born in Aiken, S.C. in 1939," Sarah Cannon says. "I had fooled around with her from time to time before that, V- -Ik tmtmrnm Minnie Pearl Public radio highlights National best sellers KUNI (FM 91) Music ICtcapp" Jawrnay.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 26 1 p.m, Options: In a tape-delayed meeting of the National Press Club, Arthur Levitt, chairman of the American Stock Exchange, speaks to the press corps. 8 p.m., Minnesota Orchestra: Live via satellite, Phillipe Entremont is the conductor and guest pianist with the Chamber Ensemble for Respighi's "Ancient Air and Dancesm Set III," Mozart's "Piano Con ful style. Also hear Bartok's "Pe Loc," "Music for String Orchestra." KHKE (FM 89.5) SATURDAY, MARCH 20 11:30 a.m., Star Wars: "While Giants Mark Time" finds Princess Leia captured by Darth Vader. 6:30 p.m., Golden Age of Radio: An episode from the "Hall of Fantasy." 7:30 p.m., Lord of the Rings: The series continues with "The Council of Elrond." 9 p.m., American Popular Singer: Blues and ballad singer Joe Williams is the guest. SUNDAY, MARCH 21 1 p.m., Special Program: Live from the New Schubert's "Symphony No.

5" and the Boccherini "Cello Concerto in B-flat." The performance was taped recently in Waterloo. Midnight, Jazz Highlights from the 1981 Grande Parade du Jazz II include sets by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco and an all-star quintet, the John Lewis Trio and Bob Crosby's "Bobcats." Pianist John Lewis then returns to the stage with Teddy Wilson for a piano duo. THURSDAY, MARCH 25 9 a.m., Concert Classics: On a double birthday day (Toscanini in 1867 and Bartok in 1881), hear the legendary Toscanini conduct great orchestras ip jws master SATURDAY, MARCH 20 10 a.m., Music in the Air: Cedar Falls harmonica player Dave Plaehn is in the studio with a wide range of tunes. Also hear the musical traditions of a Southeast Asian tribe. SUNDAY, MARCH 21 9 a.m., St.

Paul Sunday Morning: Members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra accompany the Dale Warland Singers. 10:30 a.m., UNI School of Music Presents: The Faculty Jazz Quintet is heard live on tape. 11 a.m., Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony: Cellist Stefan Reuss is the soloist as Jack Graham leads the Chamber Orchestra in a program of TOP SINGLES VI Lava Mock'a'RaU" Jast Jett 4 The Black-hearts. Arms" Journey.

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