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Against the shrewdly calculated corn of Harry Golden's For 2$ Plain and the old wives' appeal of Dr. D. C. Jarvis' Folk Medicine, there can be set Garrett Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...
...Uris (4) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 10. The Breaking Point, Du Maurier NONF1CTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 4. The Longest Day, Ryan (6) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (4) 6. The Status Seekers, Packard (5) 7. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (7) 8. The Stolen Years, Touhy 9. For 2? Plain, Golden (10) 10. Triumph in the West, Bryant (9) - Position on last week's list...
...Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders to get too close...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision...
...Armada, Mattingly...