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This is the season when gift books abound in the land-all expensive, all flossy, some gimmicky, some good. Among the good: The Discovery of the World, by Albert Bettex, a handsome history of exploration; The Lithographs of Chagall, with 237 fine reproductions; Hummingbirds, by Crawford H. Greenewalt, with superb photos and readable monographs by, of all people, the president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For givers under no compulsion to bedazzle, there are also plain books. Among the best recent ones...
HUMMINGBIRDS, by Crawford H.Greenewalt (250 pp.; Doubleday; $22.50), may become a classic of natural history. Author Greenewalt, president of mighty E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., has written a monograph, understandable to laymen, on his hobby-hummingbirds. Greenewalt offers some intriguing hummingbird lore, including the fact that they are the only birds that can hover with body motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color...
...onetime (1950-52) Secretary of the Army; Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; James B. Conant, president-emeritus of Harvard and onetime Ambassador to West Germany; Colgate W. Darden Jr., former president of the University of Virginia, former Governor of Virginia and member of Congress; Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand (who in October withdrew from the commission because of illness); Clark Kerr, president...
...Jackson polled 155,872 votes, John Quincy Adams 105,321, Henry Clay 46,587, W. H. Crawford, 44,282. Since none won a clear majority of electoral votes, the election went to the House, where Clay threw his votes-and victory-to Adams. By no small coincidence, Clay then became Adams' Secretary of State. Later, in 1828 and 1832, Jackson won both the popular and electoral majorities, served two terms as President...
...Thursday, November 3, MISS MORNA CRAWFORD will discuss ROMANTICISM IN AMERICAN AND FRENCH PAINTING...