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SCANDALOUS JOHN by Richard Gardner. 226 pages. Doubleday...
...university. Last week the pen finally proved mightier than the sword for Lieut. Colonel John S. D. Eisenhower, 42. Ending a nearly two-year Army leave of absence to research Dad's unfinished memoir on The White House Years, Young Ike resigned his commission to join Manhattan Publishers Doubleday & Company. Inc. as a nonfiction editor of history and biography. "This was not an easy thing to do," said John, who had only two years to go before qualifying for retirement and a $372.50 monthly pension...
...SURGEON (245 pp.)-W. C. Heinz -Doubleday...
Great-Great-Grandfather Oliver Vanderbilt helped found the mighty Bank of Manhattan; Grandfather Joseph joined Abner Doubleday in introducing baseball; and Cousin Cornelius manipulated his vast holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...
...started clutching gold to bosom at the age of 16 with a job as society reporter for the Staten Island Advance, has done well by Granny's example. This week she publishes the first major revision of her standard Complete Book of Etiquette (Doubleday; 733 pp.; $5.50), which has sold 1,300,000 copies since its publication in 1952. Her column is published in 100 newspapers in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, has an audience of more than 40 million; and she is the official etiquette consultant for outfits ranging from the World Book Encyclopedia...