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Literature detectives, says Professor Richard D. Altick of Ohio State University, can be just as clever as any other kind. What kind of mysteries do they solve? In a brisk, well-written book, The Scholar Adventurers (Macmillan; $5), Professor Altick, an English teacher himself, chronicles...
...Prepare yourself for the worst," warned Rio's O Globo the evening Brazil heard about the new war in Korea. In Santiago, the dollar sagged from 109 to 81 pesos in brisk free-market trading. Crowds gathered quickly to read news bulletins in Mexico City's Bucareli Street, radio stations increased their newscasts. "The measures which the great nations now take," said Bogota's El Tiempo, "will affect all of us. We enter into a grave period...
...would serve the author right for his false modesty if his readers agreed. But they may also be grateful for a brisk introduction to the minor social science of Snob Psychology...
...step was brisk and his back as straight as a ramrod. He passed through two rows of cheering [British] officers, and after turning at the gate to salute them, he acknowledged the salute of the German escort, who by that time had learned to salute...
...death last year has given up the game. Now he keeps fit raking leaves, laying stone walks to his favorite retreat, a cozy cabin overlooking a pond. His constant helpers in these weekend stints are A & P's President Ralph W. Burger and wife Margaret. After a brisk workout at raking and stone-setting, John...