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...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
...dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, proudly announced they had raised the $500,000 necessary to assure the Orchestra's existence for three more seasons (TIME, April 2). Contributors of more than $5,000: Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, Mr. & Mrs. Felix Warburg, Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann and Columbia Broadcasting System...
Engaged. Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, famed 8-goal poloist; and Helena Woolworth McCann, socialite granddaughter of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth, 5?-&-10? store tycoon...
LONG REMEMBER-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...
SANTA ANNA-Frank C. Hanighen- Coward-McCann ($3.50). Full-length biography of the "butcher of the Alamo...