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...fastest-growing schools of therapy in the U.S. is based on pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
...matter with them? General Cooke hazards no guess; but Psychiatrist Edward A. Strecker, an expert who helped in the medical phase of General Marshall's inquiry, does. In most cases, says he, it was Mother. In a companion book to General Cooke's (Their Mothers' Sons; Lippincott; $2.75), Dr. Strecker argues that "smother love" was the root of the psychoneurotics' trouble...
...human history has been religious writing-though most modern poetry reflects little sense of it. In a natural desire to show that poets and religion have been on speaking terms in the past, mediocre British Poet Alfred Noyes has collected an anthology, The Golden Book of Catholic Poetry (Lippincott; $3.50). In it readers will find such hardy perennials as Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, Francis Thompson...
Married. Joseph Wharton Lippincott, 58, tall, big-game-hunting (caribou, bear, antelope) publisher (J. B. Lippincott Co.), author of nature books for children (Chisel Tooth, the Beaver); and Virginia Jones Mathieson, 45, Philadelphia socialite ; both for the second time; in Meadowbrook...
...those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...