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Count Alfred de Marigny, acquitted in 1943 of the unsolved Bahamas murder of his father-in-law, wealthy Sir Harry Oakes, turned author with a personal history: More Devil Than Saint (Bernard Ackerman; $3). Half the book concerns the murder and trial (De Marigny wants the case reopened); the other half mostly tells how he "walked in and out of the lives of many women. . . ." Sample aphorisms: "In Europe women take good manners for granted. In America they take them to bed"; "It is no effort to make American women happy." Characteristic anecdotes: how De Marigny picked up Brenda Frazier...
...Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal at 5 p.m., and, up to last week, had never been out of Indiana...
...knows little about war or flying, Yaleman Symington is one of the country's lively industrialists. He changed Emerson's balance sheet from red to black within two years after he took over, kept the company free of labor troubles all through the war. His father-in-law is New York's Republican Representative James W. Wadsworth, co-author of the Selective Service law and one of Army's staunchest friends in Congress...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Rudolf Serkin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). A pretentious old warhorse in new harness. Serkin plays it louder but not better than Horowitz did with Father-in-Law Toscanini in Victor's 1941 recording. Performance: fair...