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Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...
KITTY FOYLE - Christopher Morley -Lippincott ($2.50). Author Morley's 46th book is apparently a reaction against his cloying reputation for whimsy. Heroine is the kind of a girl things happen to, a wisecracking blurter who has an abortive affair with a Philadelphia socialite. At once too sophisticated and too crude, too literary and too "natural," her confessions are a departure from the old Morley Mellowness into a sort of Muley Naturalism...
Earle's book, "Blackout", will be published early in November by J. B. Lippincott Company. It reports his experiences in London during the pre-war flurry, in provincial France during the "war of nerves" and his observations in Germany at the peak of tension...
...Lippincott ($1.04, $1.08). *Scott, Foresman...
...HOOKS-The Autobiography of John Kane-Lippincott...