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...OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. By weaving history, topography, marine biology and lyrical gastronomy around -the arduous everyday lives of the French seacoast villagers who tend and harvest the Ostrea edulis, Author Clark has written a book-length monograph on the world's most prized oyster with the same beguiling erudition that characterized her Rome and a Villa...
...newly published French monograph, L'Exentération pelvienne, Dr. Brunschwig reports that no fewer than 116 of his 562 patients have lived five years or longer after the operation. Virtually all have been glad that they submitted to the extensive amputation, even though many have had to wear a bag strapped to their waists to collect urine and feces. Some have been able to work for years, with no outward sign of their condition...
...Jeanne Prosser, of Lexington, will write an historical monograph on the Club National of Bordeaux, one of the many provincial societies affiliated with the Jacobian movement during the French Revolution. Mrs. Marguerite Robinson '56, of Lexington, plans to write a book based on data she gathered about the customs of a small Singhalese village...
William G. Cochran, professor of Statistics (Preparation of a monograph on the planning of observational studies for the use of research workers in the social sciences, medicine, and public health, at the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London). Frank Freidel, Jr,. professor of History (Further volumes in a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Harvard and Hyde Park, N.Y.). Howard S. Hibbett '44, professor of Japanese Literature (A critical study of the psychological novel in Japan since 1900, at Tokyo...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...