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Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson-but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: "Are you happy, are you happy?" Edward, a Negro first-grader, stared at his reader, eyes glazed-but he joined in when everybody sang, "Good night, room; good night, light; good night, window." Nicky, a third-grader whose family had just arrived from Puerto Rico, grunted only a few words in class: "Yes," "No," "Thirsty"-but he flailed his arms along with the others in pantomime...
Married. Elizabeth Ruth Peale, 23, daughter of positive-thinking Minister Norman Vincent Peale, Reader's Digest researcher; and John M. Allen, 38, associate editor of Reader's Digest; he for the second time; in Pawling...
...Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject from 1896 to 1939; and there...
...publisher compares it, is that Jones had something to say, however gracelessly he said it. Author Linakis settles for Eternity's vacant form: a military milieu, dirty words, laconism parading as toughness, and the staccato sentences, intended as drumbeats, that only evoke memories of a first-grade reader. The scene is Belgium after the war. The action is provided by U.S. Army deserters and assorted, brutal military police...
Andras Hamori is less fun to read, but his imagery is invariably exact, and the moods he maintains are more demanding than Miss Faerstein's. John Morgan's sinuous and complicated poem, "Mississippi," fails unless the reader retraces its rather flat lines several times. It contains a lot of detail unnecessary to its message or tone...