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CLEOPATRA GOES SLEDDING, by André Hodeir, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer (Grove Press; $3.95). Two wicked crocodiles try to lure a turtle into a boiling soup pot, but the turtle, aided by a mischievous monkey, wins out, and the disappointed crocodiles have to settle for mock-turtle soup...
...ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. The author's "egoism of curious disproportions" casts him as the logorrheic mock hero of last fall's peace march on the Pentagon, resulting in a literary tour de force that owes less to journalism than it does to the novelist's gift for relevant distortion...
...those bearing university identification cards, the Columbia campus had an almost festive air. Leaflets dealing with strike issues flooded the campus, and loudspeakers blared out impassioned oratory. A rock band entertained students with well-amplified sounds, and at one point a pro-rebel group staged a mock funeral procession. A group called the Pageant Players acted out skits lampooning the administration, and played a game of their own invention called "Trustee" on what resembled an outsize Monopoly board...
...creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption in his role-what one friend calls "the purity of his madness" -cloaks him in an impervious aura of innocence. Blithely he goes on communing with his windup Victrola and 400 old recordings, and indulging such eccentricities as taking "a big shower" for 90 minutes...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) has won a national mock Presidential election sponsored by Time magazine and held last week on 1200 college campuses...