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KINGDOM OF THE BEASTS, by Julian Huxley and W. Suschitzky (159 pp.; Vanguard; $ 12.50), is the next best thing to a safari, or long afternoons spent at a zoo. The photographs are unusually fine and Zoologist Huxley contributes crisp and informative notes as well as a highly readable essay on the mammal world...
There was no comment on the rumors that Aldous Huxley had been hired to write them and that they were played over and over again all through the day and night in such strategic places as the Varsity Club and Mory...
...Boone, the Eisenhowers spent a quiet evening with Mamie's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Carlson, then set forth for Newton. In such towns as Ames (where Ike chuckled at members of one Iowa State College fraternity standing at attention with golf clubs at shoulder arms), Huxley, Mitchellville and Lone Tree Junction, the streets were lined with friendly farm-belters...
...modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals. They are, writes Huxley in his program notes, "a kind of musical miracle, in which seemingly incompatible elements are reconciled in a higher synthesis...
...told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard (Lord Keynes), Virginia (Woolf), Morgan (E. M. Forster), Lytton (Strachey) and Rupert (Brooke...