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LINCOLN'S OTHER MARY (229 pp.)-Olive Carruthers [with historical appendix by R. Gerald McMurtry)-Ziff-Davis...
...taffy prose that there is no tasting the original flavor of the personalities. Luckily for the reader who wants to know what really happened, Historian R. Gerald McMurtry, who is an instructor and director of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., retells the unadorned facts in an "appendix" which is almost as long as and far better than Olive Carruthers' novel. It reprints a letter Lincoln wrote in 1838, which tells his version of the story...
...world's most important land mass is Asia with its small western promontory, Europe, and its large southern appendix, Africa. Together, they form the "World Island," capable of dominating the whole world...
...that very day, said Reader Benardete, she had found "its" and "it's" hopelessly mixed up in an advertisement in the Times. The apostrophe, she hinted, is about as useful as the vermiform appendix...
Princess Margaret Rose, 15, under the weather for days though up & around in public, had her royal appendix removed in her Buckingham Palace bedroom. Participating: Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward (her father's surgeon), four doctors, six special nurses. All went well...