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both. and they can Rip past the remainder ,,'ithout feeling that
they do not ha,'e their money's worth, Reading After All, which
is the abo,'e-mentioned extraduction. might cause the reader
to try some of the previously passed material-and enjoy it.
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"10"1, 1'''1 HO"IE! Bv Svd Hoff. New York: Doubleday,
Doran & Company, {945, 52,00.
Invasion Experiences
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\Vhen Hoff draws a cartoon. what subtlety there is is in the
gag, and not the drawing. E,'en though his p~ople look happily
unintelligent. or unintelligently happy, they look like people.
and the reader knows what their expression is meant to portray.
Being happily unintelligent ourselves, we like Hoff's work
because we can understand it without extensive researchand
because it offers man)' a laugh.
Hoff is now home from the wars, and this book follows that
theme. The thrill of a tile bathroom. the puzzlement of the
kids, the unreasoning pride of relatives, and the joy of women
at the end of the manpower shortage, as well as the obvious
bedroom angles, provide Hoff with the kernel of a laugh in
every drawing. Even the by-now hackneyed gags that crop up
in the book are almost saved by Hoff's drawing. "\\lith you,
there will always be a manpower shortage," was our favorite,
which is probably good evidence of our broken-crutch sense
of humor.
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"lORE LIVES THAN ONE. By Robert Douglas Skidmore.
Boston: Houghton ~ 1ifRin Company, 1945. 265 Pages. $2.50.
In this, his second book, Sergeant Skidmore makes a noble
try at describing what a soldier feels during two island invasions,
and the period between. I-lis failure to put it over is not
due entirely to a literary skill that is not equal to the job he
attempted, but to the undeniable fact that few sensitive men
really know what they feel when men are dying near by and
the discomfort of tropical warfare keeps pressing upon them.
Skidmore was an Air Force administrative noncom, and he
made both landings when there was little more than a beach-
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know. was a little harder to take. He describes very wel
physical things that affected him; his descriptions ~f the flY
chological factors indicate good observation but lack of
perience in evaluating them. A certain Sunday-schoolish
tude in his writing. while evidently sincere, somehow does
seem to nt-if his book is meant to portray the feelings r:i
soldier. as distinct from Sergeant Skidmore.
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