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Philosophy took a new outlook on life and language with the posthumous publication of a book of Ludwig Wittenstein's lecture notes. The book, Philosophical investigations, in already being used in Harvard's course in Epistemology and should, according to Dr. Robert Ziff, instructor of Philosophy, "produce a greater orientation of Philosophy in America in regard to language." Claims Wittgenstein in Investigations: "The work of a philosopher consists of assembling reminders for a particular purpose...
Died. William Bernard Ziff, 55, Chicago-born magazine publisher (Flying, Popular Photography, Mammoth Western, Amazing Stories) and occasional author, who, in his controversial 1942 bestseller, The Coming Battle of Germany, urged Allied leaders to subordinate ships and guns to heavy bombers, win World War II through air power; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...illusions about his stories' immortality, although he thinks that Book No. 17, New York: Confidential! (Ziff-Davis; $2.75), may last a little longer than some of the others. It is a cynical, side-of-the-mouth guidebook that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...
...LONG HOLIDAY (249 pp.)-Francis Ambrière, translated by Elaine P. Halperin-Ziff-Davis...
This week, in an impressive volume (Faces of Destiny, Ziff-Davis; $5) Karsh, now 38, shows 75 of the best pictures of the 500 notables he has snapped. In an explanatory text he also discourses on his subjects. Here & there, in his sitters' studio manners, he finds a few minor guideposts to history...