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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The Teddy Bear Book by Peter Bull. 207 pages. Random House. $10. The title was mercifully changed from Bear With Me. But Actor Bull's archly preserved chattiness is ubiquitous-and finally maddening. A pity, because the book (TIME, Dec. 5, 1969), originally published in Britain, is stuffed with...
The Backgammon Book by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford. Illustrated. 224 pages. Viking. $10. Though it is illustrated with the customary attractive leaves from medieval manuscripts and Flemish paintings, this is a no-nonsense text on one of the world's most ancient and alluring dice games. Instructions...
A Thoreau Gazetteer by Robert F. Stowell. Edited by William L Howarfh. 56 paqes. Princeton. $7.50. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone," said Henry David Thoreau, the most conspicuous nonconsumer in American letters. At $7.50 this slim, handsome gathering...
Owls by John Sparks and Tony Soper. 206 pages. Taplinger. $5.95. Chaucer saw them as messengers of death, Ophelia evoked them when going mad, potato chip ads exploit them, fairy tales celebrate their imagined wisdom. This compact book explores the history, habits and life-styles of owls (there are 133...
I Walk the Line is Director John Frankenheimer's second film in a row (the other was The Gypsy Moths) about the quiet terrors of small-town family life and a middle-aged man's irrevocable course toward self-destruction. The theme is both difficult and promising, but...