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Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...
...adopt the following rule: the younger the child, the better the books that are available. Books for tots are usually splashed with color, well designed, and sometimes contain surprising riches of fun and wonder. Older children would be better off kicking the kiddy-bait habit and graduating to Huckleberry Finn. A sampling of the season's best offerings for small fry and a few distinctive items for older children...
...revealed more than it ever laconically said. Though he never went to college, he picked his prose teachers well, starting with the King James Bible. His love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude Stein's door, and he learned the most. She taught him the impact of simple repetition and the rhythm of words...
...JOURNEY TO MATECUMBE, by Robert Lewis Taylor (424 pp.; Doubleday; $5.95), like the author's Pulitzer prize-winning Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, is a parody that echoes Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Basically, it is a stunt that may appeal to fanciers of literary ventriloquism. Like Tom Sawyer, Davey Burnie is an orphan with a pesky aunt who keeps scrubbing out his ears. Like Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot...
Kelley quickly regained the lead, but he could not shake the dogged Finn. Through the tortuous Newton hills, Detective Oksanen shadowed his man, hanging a half-stride behind Kelley's right shoulder, using him as a windbreak. Kelley tried to keep Oksanen from passing by skirting close to the crowds of spectators who lined the road, but at an intersection eight-tenths of a mile from the finish line, the road broadened momentarily and Oksanen broke into a sprint that got him by. When he crossed the line in 2 hrs. 23 min. 29 sec., Oksanen...