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...shipments of 3/4 Ib. each. The high price you erroneously quoted has discouraged potential customers. And because the error was copied by a French paper, it has become impossible for us to get shallots from France: their price demands became atrocious, so we finally had to buy shallots from Holland and Belgium...
...Cecelia Holland. A novel about 16th century Hungary that belongs to the Mary Renault-Zoe Oldenbourg school of authentic historical fiction...
RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A novel about 16th century Hungary that belongs to the Mary Renault-Zoe Oldenbourg school of authentic, realistic historical fiction...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
Died. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, 84, U.S. Marine, who became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...