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MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...
...spiels which Hawker Mastin spouted when he showed his pictures were found with them in an old barn. His notes for a running commentary to General Putnam's leap...
...PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...
...spring of 1928 marked the beginning of one of the most unique contests in the history of the College. Mrs. William L. Putnam had given $125,000 to the University so that Harvard could carry on scholastic contests with other institutions. One member of the Class of '29, L. James Rittenband of Brooklyn, N.Y., was included on the first team picked to represent the College against Yale. Also on the team was a senior from Council Bluffs, Ia., named Nathan Marsh Pusey. After the special examination papers had been marked by outside professors, it was announced the College had decisively...
...Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman E. Sproul, Jr., Saugus, Biology; John T. Bethell, South Essex, English; Jonathan Ketchum, South Natick, Music; Michael C. J. Putnam, Springfield, Classics; David S. Feingold, West Newton, Biochemical Sciences; Sorgel P. Sorokin, Winchester, Biology; Donald R. Whitehead, Wollaston, Biology...