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...finally succeeded, after months of work, in tracking down and retrieving hundreds of pieces of cover art, some of which had drifted to TIME offices round the world. Promotion Director Robert Sweeney arranged the complicated details of the bequest with the gallery. The gift was accepted by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "These portraits are as stylish and as spirited as the people they depict," said Ripley, "and we are delighted to have them...
...Rails of the World (David R. Godine; 406 pages; $75) only to find that its subject is not choochoos but birds-members of the family Rallidae, including rails, coots and gallinules. No matter. It is impossible to be disappointed by this handsome book. Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley has brought his ornithological expertise and years of patient watching to bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy for experts-and some doleful news for everyone...
Until now, Orland has been famed chiefly for its appearance in Ripley's Believe It or Not as a tiny town with no fewer than 13 bars and 21 churches-all active. Today, Orland is better known as a victim of a savage drought that is entering its second year. Its orchards, dairies, small farms and citizens are all in trouble, and the bars and churches are better patronized than ever before. In fact, the churches have been holding rain prayer meetings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night-so far to no avail...
...unblinking eye of Eastern mysticism, the dark side of Western technology, the enigmas of order and chance, the uncharted rills of the brain-no subject has been too forbidding for Arthur Koestler's exuberant curiosity. Now, at 70, he is the intellectual's Robert Ripley, presenting sideshows of believe-it-or-not facts and controversial speculations...
...freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process." Every Man, a prizewinner at this year's Cannes Festival, is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented with all the insight of a caption in Ripley's Believe...