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...like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science...
...Pillars of Wisdom to his good, hard-up friend Poet Robert Graves, with a note, "Please sell when read." Graves sold it for £300. Offered a French translation of Revolt in the Desert, Lawrence gave his permission on one condition?that the book must have printed on its jacket: "The profits...
...Peter, Minn., a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane incased in a strait-jacket from his waist up, killed his cell mate with his bare feet...
...Simon & Schuster, high-pressure popularizers. Written in Van Loon's familiar, not to say impertinent style, as if he were talking to children but hoped to be overheard by grownups, the 525 pages are thickly plummed with sketches and maps, many of them in bright colors. The book's jacket conceals a gaily inaccurate map of the world, "suitable for framing." It is a publishing venture that might easily become a bestseller. The Book-of-the-Month Club thinks so, has chosen it for September...
...this light-minded satire?an honor he usually reserves for more serious, "worthy" works. Says he : "I have never published a first novel with such a feeling of absolute assurance in its success." Sexy Artist Arno (New Yorker) has drawn a faithful portrait of the heroine for the jacket. If you wish to be entertained and hope to be a little shocked, Nymph Errant should give you at least half your wish...