No Job for a Lady/The Key to Rebecca/The Old Neighborhood/A Piano for Mrs. Cimino/The Gold of Troy

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EMPHASIZE THE POSITIVE! ?py Howard A. Rusk, M.D.
PRESIDENT, THE WORLD REHABILITATION FUND FOUNDER, INSTITUTE OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE
Some people—and I am one of them—are literally swamped with reading material in the effort to keep abreast of their professions. My field is rehabilitation medicine-helping disabled people get out of bed and back into life. In the course of my day I see patients who have been severely crippled as a result of birth defects, strokes, amputations, and accidents of all sorts. Yet I am always heartened, and humbled, by the attitude these people take toward life ; they're not daunted, depressed, or defeated. They work at coping with life, if not brilliantly conquering it.
Even with these responsibilities and my obligation to keep up with medical reading, I refuse to be deprived of popular fiction : I love it ; it relaxes me. So for thirty years I have found delight in Reader's Digest Condensed Books.
I can't help noticing a similarity between the... Tovább

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EMPHASIZE THE POSITIVE! ?py Howard A. Rusk, M.D.
PRESIDENT, THE WORLD REHABILITATION FUND FOUNDER, INSTITUTE OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE
Some people—and I am one of them—are literally swamped with reading material in the effort to keep abreast of their professions. My field is rehabilitation medicine-helping disabled people get out of bed and back into life. In the course of my day I see patients who have been severely crippled as a result of birth defects, strokes, amputations, and accidents of all sorts. Yet I am always heartened, and humbled, by the attitude these people take toward life ; they're not daunted, depressed, or defeated. They work at coping with life, if not brilliantly conquering it.
Even with these responsibilities and my obligation to keep up with medical reading, I refuse to be deprived of popular fiction : I love it ; it relaxes me. So for thirty years I have found delight in Reader's Digest Condensed Books.
I can't help noticing a similarity between the outlook of my patients and that of the editors of these fine condensations. The books the editors choose deal with the real world—wrinkles, scars, and all—but they strongly emphasi2e positive attitudes of faith, determination, and courage.
One of my favorite recent condensations is Horowitz and Mrs. Washingloi, the story of a stroke victim and his nurse. What a picture of two mismatched souls gallantly overcoming prejudice to achieve mutual respect and lasting friendship! Not every ailment can be cured and not every problem completely solved, but it's good to keep your eye on some that have been. With courage, grace, and dignity, the human spirit can conquer a lot.

THE KEY TO REBECCA by Ken Follett William Morrow, $12.95
Cairo, 1942: a city holding its breath. The German army is poised for a strike into Egypt, and the British seem powerless to stop it. Powerless, too, to catch the spy who is stealing their military secrets and transmitting them to Rommel in the desert. Who is he ? And what is the code that's hidden in the pages of a famous novel ? One man, a British intelligence officer, has the key in his grasp, but to use it he must risk losing all he holds dear. . . . Heart-stopping suspense from the author of Eye of the Needle. Page 91
A PIANO FOR MRS. CIMINO by Robert Oliphant Prentice-Hail, $11.95
Esther Cimino, a widow of seventy-six, is confused, exhausted, and no longer able to manage her life. Such at least is the opinion of her doctors, her two sons, and the judge who declares her incompetent. But time and some help from a caring granddaughter work a small miracle: Mrs. Cimino sets out to reclaim her independence, and finds that she not only has all her wits but some of the fires of youth as well. This wholly engaging story dramatizes a predicament that concerns us all. -527
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THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD by Avery Corman The Linden Press, $10.95
Meet Steve Robbins, a nice boy from the Bronx whose dreams have come true. He has become a successful advertising executive, he's proud of his perfect wife with her own career, and he has two fine daughters. But something's gone wrong: with too many outside pressures and too little time for one another, the Robbins family is falling apart. Searching for old values to shore up his shifting foundations, Steve looks 0 his past. The author of Kramer vs. Kramer has written a novel of warm, vulnerable, very real people embarked upon a voyage of self-discovery. Page 241
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THE GOLD OF TROY by Robert L. Fish Doubleday, $11.95
A fabulous lost treasure of ancient Trojan kings suddenly turns up for international auction. But who is selling it—and why? And where has the priceless collection been since it disappeared during World War II? Ruth McVeigh, head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is determined to solve the mystery. The bizarre treasure hunt leads her across Europe—into an unexpected romance, along dark paths of espionage, and under the threat of murder. P^g^ 453
NO JOB FOR A LADY by M. Phyllis Lose, VM.D. as told to Daniel Mannix Macmillan, $9.95
In her unique and colorful career, Phyllis Lose has channeled a lifelong passion for horses into the skilled dedication of a top veterinarian, disproving the prevailing notion that a woman simply can't be a "horse doctor." Her widely varied cases have ranged from a police charger with a bullet wound to (when the circus came to town) a leopard with a cold, and she has had more than one "consultation" that turned into a narrow escape. To each of her patients she brings the same good humor, courage, and joyous devotion that enliven the pages of her book. Vage 7 Vissza