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...visited eye specialists repeatedly, but they held out no hope for him. Recently, during a Florida vacation, his wife read him a story from TIME about Dr. William Feinbloom of Columbia University, who had developed doublet eyeglasses, enabling the near-blind to see (Dec. 15). When Mr. & Mrs. Pitt got back from their vacation, they found that four different friends had sent them copies of the story. Pitt visited Dr. Feinbloom, was fitted with the new glasses. Confronted with a printed page, Pitt discovered he could read whole words; before, with the aid of the most powerful reading glass...
Historical fiction addicts should be able to take it from there. And James Street, a veteran drugstore romancer, will help them along, for he has stuffed The Velvet Doublet with a raucous blend of heroics, villainy, historical eavesdropping and heaving bosoms...
...VELVET DOUBLET (351 pp.)-James Sfreet-Doubleday...
Both Spain and Columbus come off rather entertainingly in The Velvet Doublet, but the English language takes a beating. Novelist Street has chosen to write in a pretentiously archaic and gaudy style, which sometimes reads like a burlesque of Ernest Hemingway in his pidgin-Spanish phase...
...merchandise with literature. "Those of us who write for profit," he once said, "must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes." The book business being what it is, Novelist Street is pretty sure to get another bowlful of punch for The Velvet Doublet...