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Ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution agree with Pope that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that no detail is too small to be recorded. Recently, in dedication to this proposition, they offered a weighty work: The Marginal Tribes-Vol. I of their monumental Handbook of South American Indians (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington; $2.75). In its closely printed pages, readers could study the childhood...
...could be said was that 1946 furnished spectacular cash-register successes. Betty MacDonald's cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy jackets and tinny texts, sold extravagantly, some of them over 1,000,000 copies apiece...
Phillips Brooks House publications have helped to acquaint new students with the University and with Brooks House activities. The "Harvard Handbook," distributed at Fall Registration and the "PBH News," which will appear later in the term, are two of their periodicals...
...Boston Metropolitan Council of Colleges, the Liberal Union has prepared a Political Action Kit to be distributed at registration at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Kit will include a map of congressional districts, a simplified version of Massachusetts election laws, and a copy of Lowell Mellet's "Handbook of Politics...
...many U.S. parents' Dr. Gesell's Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (1943) is now a child-care handbook. Thousands more saw the MARCH OF TIME Life with Baby, filmed at the Yale Clinic...