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Minnie's achievements are celebrated in a new book by her daughter, Sophie Guggenheimer Untermeyer, and Pressagent Alix Williamson, titled Mother Is Minnie (Doubleday; $3.95). The book does little to explain what it is that equips Minnie Guggenheimer to raise some $100,000 for Lewisohn each year, but it demonstrates unmistakably why she has become as celebrated a figure at the stadium as most of the soloists who have appeared there...
...LONESOME PORCH (237 pp.)-Ovid Williams Pierce-Doubleday...
...TIME Correspondent William Weber Johnson tells it in a biography called Kelly Blue, published last week (Doubleday; $3.95.), Kelly was a rambler, a restless fiddlefoot who never stopped traveling until he was too old to roam. The son of a blacksmith of Irish descent, he was born in Ohio, lived in Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania before he was 16, and wandered West from New Jersey. As he himself admitted, he was always "too quick to take a notion and too quick to get charmed up" about somewhere else...
...CHANGE OF MIND, by G. M. Glaskin (232 pp.; Doubleday; $3.95), carries the novel of escape to the point of no return. What, asks Australian Novelist Glaskin, is the fix of a fellow who finds that his mind has entered the body of another man? The answers are provided by a pair of hapless friends who have been dabbling in hypnotism and find themselves the bewildered guinea pigs in a case of "inter-transmigration...
...first American novelist to enjoy literary success in Europe was an ex-naval officer from upstate New York named James Fenimore Cooper. His father, a rich landowner, founded Cooperstown, N.Y., where Abner Doubleday was to invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale...