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UNROLLING THE MAP-Leonard Outhwaite-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)- Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps...
...sheet-covered bodies Dr. Charles E. Norris, the city's longtime Chief Medical Examiner, lifted a sheet, quickly put it down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y., Mrs. Hope Hitchcock, answering her neighbors' third court action against her prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
...rarely as Shelley's Spirit of Delight comes a first-rate children's book. Mary Poppins will not qualify for this category, for Publishers Reynal & Hitchcock announce that it is not a juvenile; it is a story written ostensibly for children but with sentimental implications no child could grasp. Reminiscent of A. A. Milne, Peter Pan, Sruwelpeter, et al., Mary Pop- pins is far above the low average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary...