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...latest novel heeds that advice. Assorted human beings and ghosts scurry frantically about a haunted house in New England. One ghostly incident is followed by another-a flying tumbler, a fleeting shadow, a disembodied goose. Assuming that it is a whale of a joke to have a ghost sink an old curmudgeon's opulent yacht docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith...
Once out of the shower, he soaked his hands in a sink of boiling water until they were puckered and wrinkled. Then he took a sleeping pill to make himself dizzy and held a cigarette in his face, letting the smoke roll up into his eyes...
...Crimson had good reason to be wary of Jacobsohn. Last year, with Penn trailing by two points after all but the heavyweight contest, he decisioned Chace easily to sink Harvard...
...Cubans, of course, are not about to tear up their Soviet meal ticket. But the Russians may be tired of watching $1,000,000 a day sink out of sight in the Caribbean, and they have yet to make a 1965 trade agreement with Cuba. While loudly proclaiming his independence, Castro made a point of telling his people that Cuba could carry on without Russian aid. "I absolutely do not have the slightest doubt that the country could survive such trials." He later announced a new five-year trade pact with Communist China, exchanging Cuban sugar for Chinese machines, rice...
Regrettably, substance is frequently sacrificed to surface. Like Eliza crossing the ice floes, the compulsive witticist in Mrs. Kerr reflects a mind too busy to stop and sink. But unlike lesser jokesmiths, Jean Kerr can always be trusted to produce the wit that is instant wisdom, as in "The affair you don't get over is the one you never...