Announcing a collection which, with the author's preface, and the inclusion of three full-length books (Butterfield B, Hope of Heaven, Pal Jocy) underlines the crisp, modern technique of this writer. Some twenty short stories, among them, The Doctor's Son, which titled an earlier collection, cover the various fields of O'Hara's familiar worlds — bars, moving pictures, marriages, conversations caught in a flash — and the selection stresses the wide appeal of his techniques. Should be sales.