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PARODIES-AN ANTHOLOGY FROM CHAUCER TO BEERBOHM AND AFTER (574 pp.) -Dwight Macdonald-Random House...
This flawless (because meaningless) fragment of prose is offered as a parody of the once-famed gibberish of Gertrude Stein, and is the work of an unknown writer, Arthur Flegenheimer. It is one of the more recondite items in this anthology of Dwight Macdonald, critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample...
Lame-Duck Governor Furcolo, who has little affection for Jack Kennedy, made it clear by the terseness of his announcement that he was depressed by having to name Smith, and felt powerless to oppose it. Actually, Kennedy had favored Congressman (and Old Harvard Roommate) Torbert Macdonald for the post, hopeful that Macdonald would be strong enough after the two-year interim appointment to make the race for reelection. But with Furcolo resisting a Macdonald appointment (Massachusetts pols were gossiping that the Governor was trying to hold Kennedy up for a big Administration job), Kennedy decided to settle for Ben Smith...
...athletics for children below high school age-the doctors were decidedly leery. More than 1,000,000 U.S. youngsters now participate in highly organized programs such as Little League baseball and Pop Warner football. "We have itsy-bitsy leagues of all descriptions," said Pittsburgh's Dr. Robert R. Macdonald, "and we have to live with them. But we don't have to like them. The overwhelming opinion among physicians is against contact sports for elementary and junior high school students...
...doctors also criticized parents who instruct children that the "desire to win" is more important than simple participation. Said Pittsburgh's Dr. Macdonald: "The only thing really wrong with children's competitive athletics is the adults who run them...