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...adult may well conclude that the savage world of childhood has been wonderfully pacified and cleaned up since he first heard those Grimm stories or Gulliver made his horrible travels. In The Happy Hunter (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), for example, Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot...
...Orville Lothrop Freeman, 42. Orville Freeman's Swedish grandfather homesteaded a farm in Minnesota in the 1850s, but Orville was a city boy, son of a Minneapolis storekeeper. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota just in time to enlist in the Marines at the start of World War II. During the Bougainville campaign, a Japanese bullet ripped through his left cheek, left him unable to speak. As the wound healed-the scar is still visible-Freeman learned to talk again and in the process developed into an uncommonly forceful orator...
...same "liberal Midwestern Governor" message that Kennedy men slipped to Soapy Williams has reached Iowa's Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless, and Minnesota's Orville Lothrop Freeman-and it fits them just as aptly. Farther West, Kennedy's braintrusters have spread news that they are also considering Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, California's Senator Clair Engle, and even Arizona's Congressman Stewart Udall. South of the Mason-Dixon line, their only live entry has been Florida's Governor Leroy Collins...
Minnesotans, long inured to outlandish place names, got six more this week when Governor Orville L. (for Lothrop) Freeman conferred the names of famed Minnesota-born (or claimed) newsmen upon previously unchristened lakes. Picked for immortality among the state's 10,000 or more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace...
...COLUMBIAN ART, by S. K. Lothrop, et al. A stunning collection of aboriginal American art, beautifully photographed, mostly in color. From handsome Mexican pottery to Aztec masks and Peruvian textile designs, the emphasis is on useful or ceremonial art that frequently achieves high reaches of imagination and workmanship...