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TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parrish - Harpers ($2). Anne Parrish and her brother Dillwyn must have had a collection of aunts, grandmothers and female neighbors all of whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture...
Nothing else will account for Brother Dillwyn's recent book, that delicate crucifixion and beatification of mediocrity, Smith Everlasting (TIME, Oct. 18). Nothing else will account for this new book of Sister Anne's which is a duplicate of Brother Dillwyn's with just a few more hamperfuls of old-time clothes strewn in, a few more pantryfuls of homemade soups, salads, desserts, cakes, cookies and whipped cream...
SMITH EVERLASTING - Dillwyn Parrish - Harper ($2). Pippa did not prevaricate; all's well with the world. Here is a story which begins and ends on that vast plain inhabited by the innumerable Smiths that you see in the telephone book, the Chevrolets, the shaving mirror-the moderately comfortable, easygoing, unawakened small-bore men and their fussing, darning, worrying, loving wives. Martin and Emelie Smith are as concerned over the whereabouts of a pet pipe, moths in the clothes trunk, the working of the front door latch, the "niceness" of a family party (the only kind they ever achieve...
Brigadier-general Sir. Percy Sykes, Late commander of Colonial troops in Southern Persia, has placed a memorial wreath to Dillwyn Parrish Starr '08 at the base of the honor roll board in the main hallway of Widener Library. Starr was a lieutenant of the Cold stream Guard of the British army and was killed in action on September 15, 1916, at Giuchy in France. In his undergraduate days at the University he won his "H" on the football team during four successive years. The green wreath has a small Union Jack Pinned...
...Lieut. Dillwyn Parrish Starr...