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Last week Dr. de Savitsch, 37, published a swift, pungent account of his adventures (In Search of Complications-Simon & Schuster-$3). Highlights...
...Savitsch interned in Chicago's Billings Hospital. He wanted to learn surgery, but there were not enough free patients to go round among the interns. Dr. de Savitsch was finally allowed to perform an operation. But he had no patient. For a week he prowled in search of one. One evening, in a Russian cafe, he noticed a man playing Otchi Tchornyia on the guitar. "Not only his face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait...
...past had existed in which that high form of consciousness was possible; that a future must ultimately emerge in which it might live again; that during war "one's deepest obligation seemed to be to give up nothing of what mankind had previously gained and acknowledged after honest search...
While pirate-costumed waiters whooped: "Avast, swabs!" and "Ahoy, landlubbers!" photographers climbed over everybody in search of shots and the band climbed down a rope from a hole in the ceiling. Everybody had a good drink but when they woke up the next noon, they found the Nazis were still in France and Hollywood was full of martial portents...
...HANGMAN'S WHIP-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday Doran ($2). Carefully plotted around the Abbott family-Aunt Ludmilla, who is being arsenicked; Cousin Search (a girl), and Diana. Principal crime: the hanging of a mean woman who won't divorce the man Search wants to marry. Motive: money...