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...feature of the Grolier Book Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond...
...measurements the earth's radius at the equator is 3,963⅓-miles. Too small, said Izotov; he calculated that in its thickest section the radius is about ½ mile more. The Izotov globe is flattened slightly not only at the poles, like previous globes, but at the equator. Thus the earth, like every ellipsoid, has three axes instead of two and must rotate with a slightly seasick motion...
DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...
From the air, by night or day or through the thickest cloud, it lays open the terrain below like a relief map, showing coastlines, ships, harbors, jetties, mountains, lakes, rivers, bridges, cities. At close range, with the narrowest radar beam, it is possible to see a city's river fronts, avenues, even buildings...
...correspondent does his job right out where the fighting is thickest - an editor does his work in a comfortable office far from the front lines...