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LANGUAGE ON VACATION by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 318 pages. Scribner...
...year that the French impressionists last showed as a group-1886-the 27-year-old Hassam arrived in Paris. He had served an apprenticeship to a Boston wood engraver, then worked as an illustrator for Harper's, Scribner's and Century magazines. As a current retrospective exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts shows (see opposite page), his brush was already sensing moods of light and time of day. He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine...
MIDNIGHT PLUS ONE by Gavin Lyall. 249 pages. Scribner. $4.50. Lewis Cane, hero of this adventure yarn, is a former British agent who ran guns for the French Resistance during World War II. After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall...
DREISER by W. A. Swanberg. 614 pages. Scribner...
...basic idea of irradiating blood outside the body is not new, but for years it was impractical because patients needed surgery as often as once a day to implant and remove the forearm tubes. The current adaptation was made possible by Dr. Belding H. Scribner of Seattle (TIME, May 12, 1961), who devised a way of implanting the tubes permanently in the arms of patients needing regular treatments on the artificial kidney...