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...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...
...FIRST GENTLEMAN OF AMERICA-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart...
...launch courses in Political & Military Geography and Military History & American Defense Problems, dealing not only with the war but with the peace to come. > Dartmouth has a new course for upperclassmen in Modern War Strategy & National Policy. > Published this month is a course of study-War and National Policy (Farrar & Rinehart)-soon to be used in many colleges. Written by historians at Columbia and the Institute for Advanced Study, it has already been adopted by Princeton and Dartmouth, is under consideration by Columbia, Rutgers, University of California...
...including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having an eye put out by his son's cap pistol...
ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...