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ANIMALS IN AFRICA by Peter and Philippa Scott. 166 pages. Clarkson N. Potter. $12.50, and ANIMAL WORLDS by Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz...
Without Apologies offers no excuses for its rather inaccurate sub-title: a program of satire. There is little more than surface resemblance between the authors aped and the playlets penned by an anonymous aper. The Shakespearean parody might just as well be one of Marston and that of Odets is nothing more than a 1930ish view of Chayefskyland...
...Rabbit" and "Buck Rabbit," as they called each other before the magic went out of their twice-dissolved marriage, have finally split for keeps. Dropping her appeal to the second divorce (May 1962), Muriel Marston, 49, third wife of ailing Tobacco Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, 57, will let him go unfettered to a fourth wife he had somehow acquired between court hassles. Cost to Reynolds by terms of an out-of-court settlement: $2,142,624 in alimony (largest recorded in Georgia history), including $500,000 for Muriel's lawyers, plus a written guarantee not to disturb...
...twice-married Muriel Marston and twice-married Richard Joshua Reynolds, it appeared that true love had come at last. She was a graduate of the New York Times society desk; he was heir to the Reynolds Tobacco Co. fortune, trying to make do on $31,672 a week (after taxes). They met at the 1950 Knickerbocker charity ball in Manhattan (she had just divorced Husband No. 2; he was still married to Wife No. 2), were wed in 1952. She fondly called him "Buck Rabbit." He endearingly called her "Doe Rabbit...
Redivorced. By Tobacco Magnate Richard Joshua Reynolds, 56: Muriel Marston, 48, his third wife, who appealed an earlier divorce and demanded a $6,000,000 settlement, but now loses even her previous $12,500-a-year alimony; on grounds of mental cruelty (he testified that she salted his salt-free food, blew smoke in his face while he was trying to quit smoking); in Darien...