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...AMERICAN FRONT - Duncan Aikman-Doubleday, Doran...
...last week's three books about South America, Duncan Aikman's had the greatest value. A "book journalist" who has also done a job on the equally popular subject of America's Chance of Peace (with Blair Bolles), Aikman has a pleasant dislike of what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida...
Collins & Aikman Corp., Philadelphia upholstery makers, have a moth research laboratory and a corps of collectors who get 5? for each specimen brought in. The insects are kept in dark, insulated, electrically heated rooms, fed choice animal yarns, pitted against experimental proofing compounds. The company guarantees its moth-proofed fabrics for five years with contracts underwritten by an affiliate of Aetna Life Insurance...
...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...
...JOHN A. STEWART ESTATE APPRAISED." Thus people were reminded of John Aikman Stewart, long known as Wall Street's oldest financier. Born in 1822, he knew most U. S. Presidents since Jackson, served Lincoln ably as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The appraisal of his net estate, filed last week, showed he had accumulated a little more than $3,700,000 in his 104 years...