Mention

SALT WATER TAFFY, OR TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES AWAY FROM THE SEA-- June Triplett--Putnam ($2.50). When Joan Lowell published Cradle of the Deep as an autobiography, and portions of the story were shown never to have occurred, Author Corey Ford, funnyman, saw a fine chance to be satirical. Assisted by photographers and amateur actors (Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan, et al.), he wrote and illustrated this burlesque "by June Triplett" but "dedicated to Corey Ford who encouraged me by writing this autobiography for me," poking ridicule in no uncertain direction. Not surprisingly, the vigor of the Ford attack and of the ballyhoo accompanying it, succeed chiefly in exciting sympathy for Miss Lowell, whopperess though she may be. Titles of the Ford chapters reveal the whole book. Examples: "II In which I Learn Something about Sex," "III A Female Shark, and What Went On Inside." "VII Strip Poker in the Fo'c'stle--What Went On, and What Came Off," "VIII I Decide to Become a Virgin."