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...Holbrook Jackson-Scrlbner...
...this theme, Holbrook Jackson, eminent British bibliophile, essayist and editor, begins a leisurely but purposeful wandering through the land of literature. He comments widely on the aims, techniques, and inner lives of writers from Horace to Hemingway, trying always to get behind the props and wings of the literary stage...
...Hope of a Kick. The Reading of Books is no fare for the page-skipper or the love-novel addict. But even for the incorrigibly lazy reader, Holbrook Jackson has a word of hope...
High jump-P. Garland (79), J. Harrigan (84), G. Hauptfuhrer, D. Reed (111); broad jump-E. Garnsey (80), T. Guytan (82), J. Holbrook (87), H. Thayer; pole vault-P. Harwood (85), W. Lawrence (92), O. Torrey (102); javelin throw-J. Holbrook, E. Kaelber (90), D. Trimble (103), M. Von Saltza (100); discus throw-T. Cameron (71), S. Felton (76), P. Garland, W. Jackson (89); 16-pound hammer throw-S. Felton, J. Fisher (77), J. Thorndike (112), P. Zeigler (108); 16-pound shot put-P. Garland, W. Jackson, R. Miller (95), A. Wheeler (105). TRACK SCHEDULE 1:45 16-pound hammer...
...Holbrook Jackson's essay about Books Bound in Human Skin, which tells of a Russian poet who had lost a leg in a hunting accident, and used the discarded skin to bind a collection of his own love lyrics. Hides from many an aristocrat are said to have been used by leaders of the French Revolution to bind the works of their Patron-Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. Correctly tanned and dressed, human hide, says Author Jackson, is definitely comparable in texture and quality to good morocco...