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...spryest baseball crowd in the country are the oldsters who sit in the winter sun at Waterfront Park, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ordinarily at this time of year the benches crackle with gossip about the newly arrived Yankees and Cardinals, who have trained at St. Pete for many a spring. This year, with big-league ball clubs warming up in their own backyards, St. Pete's oldsters must be content with their own ball clubs: the Kubs and Kids...
...SURVEY-G. K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Vigorous essays by the spryest fat man now writing...
...declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...