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LIFE AMONG THE SURREALISTS, by Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing...
Still, the meet offers considerable excitement. In the 880, the first running event, Cambridge's Elliott and J.B. Holt of Oxford will face Harvard captain Fred Howard and Yale leader Jim Stack. No matter who wins, the meet record of 1:51.3 and the Stadium mark of 1:49.8 seem doomed. Mullin should romp in the mile against Oxford's Stephen James (best time 4:05.1) and Rodger Bell...
...GROWS OLDER (302 pp.)-Robert Ruark-Holt, Rme-hart & Winston...
...RICHARD HARDING DAVIS YEARS (336 pp.)-Gerald Lanqford-Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...ANNALS OF LOGAN, by Robert Graham (216 pp.; Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95), is the latest wrinkle in Organization Man books, and one from which the genre may never recover. As to plot, characters and tone, it is an ordinary anti-business novel: somebody sleeps with somebody's secretary, somebody is fired ruthlessly, somebody else goes mad. The only innovation Author Graham has introduced is that he writes the whole thing in verse, of sorts. Everyone at Cross Automatic Controls is meant to have his own meter, but the main differences between the characters lie in typography: the president speaks...