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Martignoni (5 12 pp.; Grosset & Dun lap; $4.95), is the year's bargain in children's books, a fat, discriminating collection of writing from Beatrix Potter to Phyllis McGinley, and illustrations by such immortals as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Palmer Cox and others nearly as good. If there really is a comic-book menace abroad, this book is much the best way to cope with...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...
...Simon & Schuster; $4.95), is an amusing, discursive history of pipes and pipe smoking. Care and cleaning, seasoning, choice of tobacco, how to fill and then empty the bowl, are all gone into with light seriousness-and sometimes almost with mysticism. In an introduction, British Humorist Stephen (Lifemanship) Potter explains about pipemanship, e.g., "practiced pipe smoking is capable of making a cigarette smoker seem flustered and untidy, particularly if [he] maintains a long worm of ash messily drooping from his cigarette...
...defense move followed the testimony of the prosecution's three final witnesses, Senators Everett M. Dirksen, Karl E. Mundt, and Charles E. Potter. They were asked about the procedures and aims of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Investigations Subcommittee in its inquiry into subversion in defense establishments...
Senators Everett M. Dirksen, of Iillinois, Karl E. Mundt, of South Datkota, and Charles E. Potter, of Michigan, will take the stand as government witnesses. The three Senators, who arrived in Boston last night, are expected to be the last witnesses the government will call...