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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Menace to Society."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a new collection of Jelly Roll Morton recordings: "Jelly Roll Morton: Library of Congress Recordings" (Rounder records, 4 volumes).

(1) T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the Fall lineup; (2) Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "A Good Man in Africa."

2: (Interview with ORVILLE SCHELL cont

As a child, LUCY GREALY spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured. She has since had over thirty reconstructive procedures and years of living with a distorted self-image. She's just written "Autobiography of a Face" (Houghton Mifflin Company), her memoir about coming to terms with looking less than perfect in a society that values female beauty.

Author KURT VONNEGUT. Perhaps his most famous book, the anti-war novel"Slaughterhouse Five," has been rereleased in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition (Delacourte Press). Based on VONNEGUT's own experiences during the Dresden firebombing during the Second World War, the novel was a cultural icon at the height of popular protest against the war in Vietnam. (REBROADCAST FROM MAY,

Terry talks with molecular geneticist MARY-CLAIRE KING. She is one of the scientists who's work is featured in the new PBS series, "The Secret of Life." For the past 17 years, her research has focused on finding the gene responsible for the type of breast cancer that is inherited. She believes she is now close to locating the gene.

2: The Tenth edition of "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary," is out. Terry talks about pronunciation with one of the book's Associate Editors, BRIAN SIETSEMA ("seat-SEE-ma").

Columnist RAMI KHOURI (pronounced "Koor-ee"). Khouri, a Palestinian Jordanian, is the former editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times newspaper and is now columnist there.

Final portion of MIKAL GILMORE interview.

Literary Spy Master, JOHN LE CARRE (pronounced "Luh Karay"). An author at the pinnacle of the espionage genre, LE CARRE has written such classics as "Smiley's People", "Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy", and "The Russia House". LE CARRE has shifted his gaze to the Gulf War and international arms dealers in his new novel "The Night Manager" (Alfred A.