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...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
...elements. And once the element is established, the panels should bat at least .333 in guessing the sign. Yet often as not, particularly with the elements, all the panelists have guessed wrong. They missed Jack Benny (Air), Robert Goulet (Fire), Carol Lawrence (Earth), and Ed Sullivan's wife Sylvia (Fire). But all the experts did guess Sullivan's element last week. He is Air. So is the show...
...WHITE, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A compassionate biography of the tormented English author who re-created the legend of King Arthur in a new form part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic...
...WHITE by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 352 pages. Viking...
...Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...