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...movie in the evenings. In Key West, he barhops or sits home listening to records with his long time secretary, Frank Merlo, a slight man with steel-grey hair. The rest of the house hold consists of two playful bulldogs, Mr. Moon and Baby Doll, and a parrot...
SUMER: THE DAWN OF ART, and THE ARTS OF ASSYRIA, both by Andre Parrot. These splendid books are the first two in a 40-volume survey of man's art. The project's guiding hand, as might be expected, is that of that homme perpetually engage, Andre Malraux...
...ARTS OF ASSYRIA, by André Parrot (383 pp.; Golden Press; $25). The extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white...
...that they are making "some dogmatic statements and sweeping suggestions based on grossly inadequate knowledge." They recognize 400 viruses as infecting vertebrates, rate 50 of them, including rabies, as unclassifiable, and put the rest in six groups (see chart). They leave out the large "mantle viruses'' of parrot fever and trachoma, which are vulnerable to antibiotics and other drugs...
...discovery does not help much in treating individual cases. The disease is hard to diagnose. The symptoms closely resemble those of other infections, including parrot fever and flu. Laboratory tests to establish that Eaton Agent is involved may take three weeks. By that time, a patient is well over the hump. Conceding that antibiotics should not be used indiscriminately, an A.M.A. editorial nonetheless suggests that Declomycin be given in epidemic situations where Eaton Agent is strongly suspected to be the villain...