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These captions of his drawings are lively clues to the imagination of James Thurber. This week The New Yorker's famous comic master of neurasthenia-and its illumination of the so-called normal world-publishes his first picture book in ten years, Men, Women and Dogs (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Thurber has published a dozen books of prose and pictures which have already taken their places among the humorous classics of the U.S. The new book offers Thurber's grateful public 205 pages of devastating deraillery in line and punchline...
...WIDE NET - Eudora Welty - Harcourt, Brace...
Most socialized medicine enthusiasts, and a lot of people who never heard of socialized medicine, will read Paul de Kruif's Kaiser Wakes the Doctors (Harcourt, Brace; $2), out this week. Its 158 pages are an enthusiastic popularized account of the prepaid group medical care Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield established for Kaiser workers. Throughout the book, De Kruif is an unabashed St. Paul, exhorting readers to faith, hope & charity for the new group medical revelation. Writes De Kruif: "Henry Kaiser stirred me to drop all else. . . to tell America this story...
QUEENS DIE PROUDLY-W. L. White-Harcourt, Brace...
FOUR QUARTETS - T. S. Eliot - Harcourt, Brace...