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...Country Gentleman) had once dropped out, then returned. So had others. A decade ago Editor Wallace began to supplement the Digest's reprint diet with a staff of original Digest authors which is now formidable. Noticeable in recent years: fewer Digest reprints from long-favored sources, more from lesser-known, smaller publications, and more original articles...
...Terrible Gustave Dore (Marchbanks Press; $2.50), a thoughtful reflection on that "agreeable terror." It is an unpretentious, revealing study. By comparing his subject with the surrealists, Author Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Manhattan teacher and bibliophile, deftly indicates the psychological sources of Dore's work. By recalling his lesser-known achievements in cartooning, the book rounds out the French giant of 19th-Century illustration for those who know him only in his solemn Inferno and Bible, farcical Rabelais and Droll Stories...
Pamphlets and the rallying cries of "Quit India," "Long Live Gandhi," "Long Live Nehru," "Hindus and Moslems are brothers" showed that, although driven underground, the Congress party machinery was still functioning. Lesser-known and unjailed party workers left the cities to organize strikes, sabotage and boycotts in the hinterland. After 20 years of instilling hatred of British domination in the minds of peasantry and middle-class intellectuals, they worked in well-seeded fields...
Collectors were green-eyed when they saw the only known piece of furniture to carry the label of Newport Cabinetmaker Edmund Townsend, the only known carved chair to carry the famous name of its maker Benjamin Randolph; they consoled themselves by saying the collection had cost too much, that Karolik had been taken in on prices even though he had top-notch material. Scholars were excited to find as many as a dozen pieces ascribed to the lesser-known Boston maker John Seymour, whose Satiny finishes and tricky inlay patterns made his furniture more elegant than that of most contemporaries...
...name and the old characters, but a somewhat newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren't given a plug. Others who read the book or saw the play will find "Tobacco Road," the picture, one of the funniest slapstick comedies...