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After burying its nose in the book publishing business for more than a year, the Federal Trade Commission leaned back and issued a complaint last week that was a bestseller along U.S. Publisher's Row. The Commission charged that Doubleday & Co. and five other publishers* violated federal antimonopoly laws by allowing the book clubs to sell their books at cut-rate prices, while retailers were required to sell the same titles at fixed prices...
...publishers insist they have always been willing to do this. Said Doubleday President Douglas M. Black: "Any retailer that will bid and pay can lease plates. If any bookseller wants to start a book club there's nothing to stop...
INDEPENDENT MEMBER (363 pp.)-A. P. Herbert-Doubleday...
Psalms for Courage. It was just such bold medical pioneering in a pioneer land that led to the specialized medical art of gynecology, says British Author Harvey Graham in Eternal Eve (Doubleday; $10). Caesarean section itself,* performed on dead or dying women, was already as old as the Pyramids. The first known Caesarean which did not kill the mother was done in 1500 by Jacob Nufer, a Swiss sow-gelder, on his own wife. In the three centuries after Nufer, European doctors tried rarely (and usually with fatal results) the operation which Dr. Bennett dared and did so well...
...MOUSE Is BORN (214 pp.)-Anita Loos-Doubleday...