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Bilbo's first autobiographical tome, Carrying a Gun for Al Capone, had England by the ears eight years ago, ran into 17 editions, was translated into nine foreign languages. Five years and one book (I Can't Escape Adventure) later, Bilbo opened a highly successful night spot in London's arty Chelsea, where he assiduously cultivated those in the know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend...
Last week, as Congress discussed changes in the old-age provisions of the Social Security Act (TIME, June 5), U. S. doctors also turned their attention to old folks. Attention-turner was Problems of Ageing,* technical tome on what is technically called geriatrics, which contains the scholarly opinions of 25 experts on the medical and psychological problems of old age. First bang-up work on geriatrics ever published, the book contains an introduction by 79-year-old John Dewey, lengthy articles by such famous scientists as Physiologists Anton Julius Carlson of University of Chicago, Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard, Nutritionist...
...Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
Since 1934, according to proceedings instituted in Trenton's Chancery Court, Mr. Kenny has spent much time ghosting a two-volume legal tome to sell for $30 under the title of Dougal Herr on Marriage, Divorce and Separation in New Jersey. His pay at first was $40 a week, was later reported at $50 and $60. In addition his author-employer, Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal Herr, gave him a 40% stock interest in a firm called Legal Publications, Inc. of Hoboken, formed to publish and sell the book...
Published in the U. S. last week was an other book by Professor Hogben, titled Science for the Citizen* subtitled "The Second of the Primers for the Age of Plenty.'' Started long before Mathematics for the Million, this hulking tome runs to 1,076 close-packed pages. It surveys almost the whole field of science, from its origins onward, is built on five main pillars: Astronomy, Chemistry, Power, Biology, Behavior...