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...really amazing, the things people carry around with them." Amazing indeed-and more than a little disturbing. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, federal marshals have scooped up knives, handguns, tear-gas guns and stolen credit cards. In Los Angeles, officials found in a boarding area a jacket containing a .22 revolver, a .38 revolver, a .25 automatic and three boxes of ammunition...
...Paul Newman); and the Fashion Foundation of America's categorized roster of Best-Dressed Men, which inexplicably contains such rumpled misfits as Aristotle Onassis for "international society" and Walter Cronkite for "communications." Said Newscaster Cronkite: "This distinction was earned entirely by straightening my tie and putting on my jacket just before the TV camera turns...
...Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable...
...swaying history of the great North Atlantic steamships: can the $15 hardback leviathan survive in an age that buys its books from newsstands, reads them in an hour, and discards them like banana peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...
Black Moses, is a prime example. The jacket is an elaborate fold-out that pictures Hayes robed and sandaled against a cross-shaped background. The liner notes tell his life story in biblical language that begins, "And so it came to pass...