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...Penguin Books, Transatlantic is to have three continuing features: 1) a Crowther commentary on what is going on in the U.S.; 2) a Washington letter by the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond; 3) "incidental notes on the state of the States" by U.S. Critic Carl Van Doren. The rest (save the advertising at ?75 a page) is and will be an all-American contribution. The U.S. editorial staff is a "steering committee" headed by Author Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington...
Transatlantic's 64-page debut fell short of the prospectus. Author Van Doren's discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...
MUTINY IN JANUARY - Carl Van Doren - Viking ($3.50). On a January morn ing in 1781, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne wrote desperately to George Washington, informing him of "a mutiny that for a week threatened the Americans with the violent collapse of their whole army and the loss of their prospects of independence." The mutineers (from the Pennsylvania Line regiments, stationed under Wayne at Morristown, NJ.) rebelled at their lack of pay, food, decent clothing. British General Sir Henry Clinton hoped to persuade the malcontents to join him in Manhattan. The full story of the spying and intrigue is told...
...Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...
...String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...