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...DEATH STOPS THE FROLIC-George Bellairs-Macmillan ($2). As exuberant Alderman Harbuttle led a gay crocodile of English "follow-my-leader" through the aisles of a dusky church, he was suddenly and expertly sliced with an ordinary bread knife. Subsequent events and beautiful sleuthing put the story at the top of any list...
...INNOCENTS AT CEDRO: A MEMOIR OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND SOME OTHERS -Robert L Duffus-<Macmillan...
...Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...
Like his previous book, The Case for Christianity (Macmillan; $1), Christian Behaviour is a collection of Author Lewis' BBC talks. The Case for Christianity explained why he believes Christianity is true. Christian Behaviour explains what a Christian must do to make religion ring true in his life. Lewis' main point: morals are not like the schoolboy's definition of God-"The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." Morals, says Lewis, "are directions for running the human machine...
...President, but by white-thatched Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 43, who ran Lend-Lease from August 1941 until it merged with Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration last September. Now Under Secretary of State, Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers the most comprehensive picture of Lend-Lease to date...