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General RIDIN' THE RAINBOW - Rosemary Taylor- Whittlesey House...
With less than two weeks left to bone up for the election, U.S. citizens were not exactly rushing to buy books about the candidates. Stanley Walker's new campaign biography, Dewey; an American of This Century (Whittlesey House; $2.50), was no more a best seller than the year's two Roosevelt books: Compton Mackenzie's Mr. Roosevelt, Noel F. Busch's What Manner...
...Manhattan socialite, was a childhood friend of her 27-year-old Army Air Forces lieutenant groom, Courtlandt Nicoll, Manhattan socialite whose family attends the Little Church. Among the bride's wedding presents was her father's latest book, dedicated to her: Marriage Is a Serious Business (Whittlesey House; $2). It is full of the rector's warmly human advice to marrying couples, and of anecdotes about weddings at the Little Church...
...dearth of competent political books that could provide U.S. readers of 1943 with some clue to the background of conflict from which they might appraise the turbulent changes of the year. The geopoliticians were busy. Andreas Dorpalen's The World of General Haushofer ($3.50) and Derwent Whittlesey's German Strategy of World Conquest ($2.50) examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder. There was also G. A. Borgese's Common Cause...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...