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These are some of the lessons that Rich ard M. Nixon has drawn from his crisis-ridden career - and which he passes along to readers of his Six Crises, published in part by LIFE and now out in a book (Doubleday; 460 pp.; $5.95). It is a curious document. It displays at times a genuine humility - and at times a need less, naive immodesty. It provides some absorbing footnotes to recent history. It gives insight into the strange political relationship between Nixon and Eisenhower. And it tells more about Nixon than he may have intended...
SCOTT FITZGERALD (364 pp.)-Andrew Turnbull-Scribner...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (491 pp.)-Enid Sfarkie-New Directions...
LIFE AMONG THE SURREALISTS, by Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing...
NIGHT DROP, by S.L.A. Marshall (415 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $6.50). "Slam" Marshall, famed war correspondent for the Detroit News and a retired brigadier general (Army Reserve), here undertakes to tell what happeaed when the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines in the dead of night on Dday. Most of them got lost. They fought or drowned in swamps that air reconnaissance had failed to reveal. They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes...