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...opening sentence in the story really struck home ... I know just how tired the inhabitants of Kissimmee are of the stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...
...WATERS OF SILOE (377 PP.) -Thomas Merton-Harcourt, Brace...
British traders made another highly specialized export effort last week. In Manhattan's Washington Market, the season's first grouse went on sale. On hand were 103 brace (i.e., 206 birds), at $10.50 a brace, or about $3.50 a pound. That was the standard price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment...
...BODY (215 pp.)-William Sansom-Harcourt, Brace...
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (314 pp.)-George Orwell-Harcourt, Brace...