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...happens, the old argument about how much Washington knew of the Japanese attack plans in advance is opening up again. British Author John Costello, in his just published The Pacific War (Rawson, Wade; $24), contends that the U.S. and Britain had agreed in November to join forces in case of a Japanese attack-although the offensive was expected in the Philippines or Malaya. In Infamy, to be published by Doubleday next March, Historian John Toland argues that Washington for decades covered up its failure to warn Pearl Harbor of the imminent danger...
...years ago, scores of books have been written about the conspiracy and the characters surrounding it. None has dispelled the legend that the man who was tried and hanged for the crime, Actor John Wilkes Booth, was not the real murderer. The Cosgrove Report by G.J.A. O'Toole (Rawson, Wade; 424 pages; $12.95), though fictional, makes the strongest case yet that Booth escaped. This is not an easy task: the actor had one of the most familiar faces...
...friends in other parts of the country and were eventually taped on refrigerators from New York to California. Not surprisingly, the good doctor was prevailed upon to write a book, padding his original diet with 244 pages of familiar advice and additional menus. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (Rawson, Wade; $7.95), whose cover boasts, LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 14 DAYS AND KEEP THEM OFF, has sold some 270,000 copies since it was published last January...
...Linda Rawson '76 joined the club to play squash, and says "it took a lot of fortitude to remain a member." She notes that women were allowed on only four of the eight squash courts and had no access to locker room facilities. However, a major renovation of the facilities in 1978 which improved quarters for women, made, as Rawson says, "a whole different world" for women...
...APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS (3 vols.): ARCHITECTURE by Sinclair Gauldie. 193 pages. $8.50; SCULPTURE bv L R. Rogers. 242 pages. $9.75; DRAWING by Philip Rawson. 322 pages. $9.75. Oxford. Handsomely produced for smaller coffee tables...