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...daily journal, he simply "spied on people." One classroom contains eight doves, a skink, boa constrictor, canary, goldfish, turtles and families of gerbils and mice. The mating habits of a pair of doves, Hawk and Paloma, led to a highly explicit discussion of reproduction, all duly recorded in a scrapbook labeled the "Dove Book." The animals provide a common community of interest-and creating a community is a main Trowbridge...
...Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...
...Returning home from the service in 1919, he felt that "I had never quite believed in that world, that I had never, in fact, quite belonged to it. It now appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus not only the scrapbook of a growing writer but also an American echo of Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That-the classic farewell to innocence and youth in the comfortable era before...
...easily the world's best pole vaulter a decade ago keeps neither a scrapbook nor a trophy room, cannot even remember where he stashed the gold medals he won in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Yet at 41, jut-jawed Bob Richards is as familiar a figure as most active athletes. Nobody could be happier about that than General Mills, Inc., maker of Wheaties, the breakfast yummy that Richards, one of the country's most successful single-product salesmen, enthusiastically pushes on television...
This big, curious volume, part documentary, part art book, part personal scrapbook-500 pictures (130 in color), 100,000 words of text-is both a pictorial record of Duncan's work and an autobiography. It shows most strikingly that Duncan the word chronicler is not as interesting as Duncan the photographer, if only because he exposes, like Halliburton, much more of his emotions and his self-concern than the reader cares to know. Characteristically, he dedicates the book to both his ex-wife and his present wife, then goes on to present dozens of documents, letters and telegrams that...