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...their list of decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration camp by an invitation to teach in Manhattan's Arts Students' League. Though he threw himself into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying to establish new roots as an illustrator. But as Grosz himself noted: "It is not easy to keep repeating yes, everything's fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story of my life," the big no sounded loud and clear again...
Thus does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
Millions of Nudes. Always essentially an illustrator, Marsh followed in the Ash Can tradition pioneered by John Sloan and Robert Henri. Like them he was possessed by the lure of the big city: "It offers itself. New York is a new city. You can't touch London or Paris that...
HIGHWAY OF THE SUN, by Victor W. von Hagen (320 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce-Llttle, Brown; $6), describes an expedition undertaken in 1952 to retrace the famous Inca roads of the west coast of South America. A vivid and frequently fascinating mixture of history, anthropology and archaeology which sharply restores an ancient civilization...
...SLOAN WILSON, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and executive of the White House Conference on Education, in HARPER'S Magazine...