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...Nation (circ. 35,889), which usually takes itself and the world with knit-browed gravity, took a lighter view last week of the current "apocalyptic writing." If the bomb destroys the world, wrote Associate Editor Robert Bendiner, "everyone will be prepared with the proper ironic comment." But if the end comes from a "brush with a ... comet, we'll all be caught flatfooted . . . Habits being what they are, the press of the Day Before will handle the approaching calamity as follows...
...finished painting reflected both Koerner's beginnings in Vienna and his present life in Brooklyn; it told nothing of the long trail that connected the two. He was born 34 years ago into an affectionate, close-knit Jewish family: "My father was a shipping agent for a while; later he sold dental supplies. We always had a nice apartment and good living. He taught me to like light music and my mother taught me to like symphonies. We all used to go walking together-my brother and my parents and I-in the Vienna woods, and sometimes...
Neptune's Laws. In trying to explain how he managed his round-the-world voyage, modest Captain Slocum wrote that "above all to be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws." In this loose-knit but appealing biography, his son, Victor Slocum, who was 77 when he died last December, retells his father's best stories, adds some new ones and explains in detail just what kind of "schooling" old Captain Slocum...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...