Not In the Least

Sly fun realized by transatlantic figures in selections from the amusing [and occasionally critical] records of The Why o' the World's network of letter writers. Subjects range over such mysteries as the truth [at last!] about Murphy's Law, and the amazing powers of the Zippo cigarette lighter; about liver examinations [now often regarded as mere voodoo] that can save important persons from sudden violent death. Here we have an amateur in W-o'-W's Research Section discovering the first historic reference to steak and chips. And here is a correspondent from Strasbourg with the exclusive bombshell that an unknown young Swiss has solved Brecht's Riddle: What happens to the hole when the cheese has gone? The book is imbued with the Apollonian enlightened spirit of Dvanda Masda, shown armored in an artist's impression, but with in-turned helmet horns. Inscribing the portrait bookplate completes a unique gift. Twenty English crosswords with mysterious meanings offer more hours of amusement.