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Last week, in the first definitive Boone biography, Editor-Biographer Bakeless appeared to have the story straight at last, but the result is far from being a debunking job. Biographer Bakeless drops a number of legends (including one that Boone lived with a Shawnee squaw), moderates a number of storybook feats. But in the main his 480-page dead-eye biography portrays Boone as a deserving hero. Not even adolescents will be disillusioned by the true story of Boone's escape from Chief Blackfish, his wily strategy in the siege of Boonesborough, his exploits as an officer...
...three years young Surgeon Harvey Graham, assistant editor of the British Medical Journal, grubbed in museums and medical libraries all over Britain. Fortnight ago he published the first popular "storybook of surgery,"* a book of more than 400 pages, crammed with forgotten incidents of scientific history from the neolithic age to 1938. It includes brief biographies which bring to life such geniuses as Galen, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, John Hunter, William Harvey, Joseph Lister. Bits from Dr. Graham's story...
...hits for a 10-to-3 victory and thereby clinch the National League pennant on the next to the last day of the season. In that split second between the final put-out and the first whoops of his teammates, grinning Gabby Hartnett might well have reviewed the storybook happenings of the past two months-since the day he suddenly replaced Charlie Grimm as manager...
Olivia De Havilland couldn't be more ravishing and, cast to type, her only convincing scenes are d'Amour. The villainous villain, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, is the able Basil Rathbone. The supporting cast, including the familiar Little John and Friar Tuck, are true to their storybook types, and everybody has a wonderful time...
...Dutch-boy bob, had sued for an accounting of the great fortune he was sure he had amassed. From the San Fernando Valley mansion that Jackie's talents paid for, came the hurt and indignant cry of an outraged mother, the shrewd two-cents' worth of a storybook stepfather...