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recognition of all who help the library by contributions of any kind. Books added -to the shelves recently: The Best of Families, by Ellin Berlin (Mrs. Irving Berlin, nee Mackay)-remember the uproar when they married?
Ambassador’s Journal, by John Kenneth Galbraith-his tour in India.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland-the tum-of-the-century shocker. Madame Sarah, by Cornelia Otis Skinner-life and times of Sarah Bernhardt.
Books already in the collection, of continuing interest:
Biographies of Madame Curie, Bette Davis, Dietrich
Dr. Tom Dooley’s three books
The Mushroom Hunter’s Field Guide, by Alexander H. Smith
New Worlds to Conquer and Seven League Boots, both by Richard Halliburton
Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl-across the Pacific on a wooden raft
Airs Above the Ground, by Mary Stewart-intrigue around the famous Lippizaner stallions of Vienna ! Caravans, by James Michener
A Miracle for Mexico, by Niggli
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