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VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE (658 pp.) -M/7//cen/ Fenwick-Simon & Schusfer...
...cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional seating system. Whenever egos touch . . . common sense demands a system. [Etiquette] is essential to the amenities of civilized life...
Died. Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher, 69, Britain's retired Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service (1919-39); in London. Fisher was criticized for being an unconventional administrator, but he helped to modernize Britain's civil service...
...LONG WING (246 pp.)-Elizabeth Fenwick-Rlnehart...
...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...