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...meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold d'Estaing," he will no doubt be pardoned for having succumbed to an overdose of summitry...
...fact, virtually all the talks and trips had a serious, valid purpose. The Common Market summit, for instance, seemed headed for disaster-a destination it may eventually reach anyway -until Schmidt flew to London. Apparently moved by Harold Wilson's argument that Britain is being unfairly treated in the Common Market budget, Schmidt hinted that the Market's richest members, meaning West Germany and France, might ante up more.* He then encouraged the Paris dinner between his old friend Giscard and Wills son so that the British Prime Minister ' could try to convince the French President...
EDWARD BOREIN: COWBOY ARTIST by Harold G. Davidson. 189 pages. Doubleday. $19.95. Borein (1872-1945) never achieved the celebrity of such Western artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He drifted from cowpunching along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work...
FLASH GORDON: THE PLANET MONGO by Alex Raymond. Vol. I. PRINCE VALIANT by Harold Foster. Vol. I. Nostalgia Press. Both unpaged. $12.95 each...
...indeed, was Harold Foster. Volume I of Prince Valiant (roughly, strips 1937 to 1940) follows the sturdy young nobleman with the blue-black pageboy from youth through his early squire days at King Arthur's Court. Affectionate readers may forgivingly understand why the Duke of Windsor called this strip the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past 100 years." To be continued in Volume...