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PARIS WAS OUR MISTRESS (254 pp.)-Samuel Putnam-Viking...
...than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes as art correspondent for New York newspapers: ". . . It was perhaps the first and only time . . . that the intellectual cream of a young generation had deliberately . . . gone into exile...
...ELEPHANT AND THE KANGAROO (254 pp.)-T. H. White- Putnam...
...Pete Putnam, who edged out Yale ace Bobby Monetti in the second race of the afternoon, was the star of the contest, placing first for the Crimson in both events of a meet that was hampered because of very light winds...
...Putnam and Thurber also teamed up Saturday to place second in a field of seven schools. The Crimson scored 252 points to Boston University...