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...taxpayers, but they paid 42.14% of the tax. Only the returns of people in high income brackets got automatic, detailed inspection. But the average man could get scant comfort from this- all returns were checked for arithmetic and obvious larceny, and 150,000 would be picked at random during 1949 and investigated down to the last deduction...
...SEEKER (422 pp.)-Sinclair Lewis-Random House...
...TREE OF NIGHT AND OTHER STORIES (209 pp.)-Truman Capofe-Random House...
...members of the Social Affairs Committee were indulging in random and irresponsible personal squabbling. They had never wanted the proceedings to be known, they said; once the case became public they about-faced to preserve their chairman's name. Their arguments are not convincing: either Lally was guilty of the charges--and there is some reason to think that he had not run the Committee well--or he was not to blame for the mixups. If he was in the wrong there was no reason to shield him; if the charges were strong enough to be raised and accepted...
LETTERS OF MARCEL PROUST (462 pp.)-Translated and edited by Mina Curtiss-Random House...