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Your Sept. 10 footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move...
Under the headline "Cancer Suspects" appearing in your Aug. 27 issue, you list "Beta-naphthylamine, used as a dye fixative in many lipsticks and chewing gums." As far as we know, and we have checked with all of the important technical experts in the lipstick field, beta-naphthylamine is not used in lipstick at all. Nor is it an intermediate of the various dyes which are used in the manufacture of lipsticks, and accordingly cannot even appear therein as a contaminant...
There were cheering crowds and welcoming broadcasts for the arriving travelers. The Boston Symphony Orchestra came to Leningrad last week-the first Western symphony to appear in the Soviet Union. Every Leningrader with enough influence to get his hands on a ticket (12-40 rubles - $3-$10) or enough money to pay scalpers' prices (hundreds of rubles) was inside the gold, ivory and plush Philharmonia Hall. Thousands of others heard the music over the radio...
...Publishing gimmicks seldom appear alone. Next month two collections of essays about married life (by Emily Hahn and Eric Hatch) will appear in the same back-to-back book form...
...more typical American contender in the Sagan sweeps is Pamela Moore, 18, a Barnard College senior, whose novel Chocolates for Breakfast will appear later this month. It deals with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...