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Charles Saxon's One Man's Fancy (Dodd, Mead; unpaged; $10.95) is a collage of upwardly mobile Americana. "Is it Manet or Monet who isn't as good as the other?" asks a culture-hungry matron. A father holds his little girl's hand: "What did you learn in school today?" She shows him: an over-the-shoulder judo throw...
...Dodd, Mead; 529 pages...
...author. But, yes, buried in the middle of the third paragraph is the real reason for the note: she has chosen not to discuss the one episode in her 85 years that everyone will be looking for. There is nothing about her notorious lapse into amnesia in 1926, and Dodd, Mead might well have tried to head off a great deal of fruitless inquiry. Dame Agatha's first husband had asked her for a divorce so that he could marry a younger woman. This was unthinkable, and to her unending regret, she did the unthinkable in return. Abandoning...
...CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT by ROBERT WHITING 247 pages. Dodd, Mead...
Died. Benjamin Graham, 82, dean of security analysts and an investor who became a millionaire; in Aix-en-Provence, France. Graham's 1934 book Security Analysis (coauthored with David L. Dodd) remains a business-school textbook; more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The Intelligent Investor, his layman's guide to Wall Street, stressed the importance of the net asset value of a corporation's stock...