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Just Out: In The American Connection, John Pekkanen charges the drug industry with fighting efforts to control pill-popping (Follett, $7.95). . . . Indiana reissues Leon Edel’s study of Literary Biography ($5.95; paper, $1.95). . . . They said it couldn’t be done, but James C. Gleeson and Brian Meyer have translated Ogden Nash into Latin in Ave Ogden! (Little, Brown, $5.95). . . . Retired from teaching but still writing, Sidney Hook probes Education and the Taming of Power (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Forty former boxing champs tell their stories in Peter Heller’s In This Corner. . . ! (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). . . . Abortion and Social Justice is a collection of essays sponsored by Americans United for Life, 230 N. Michigan, Chicago 60601.

Christmas Gift Books: Now out and amply illustrated, J. B. Priestley’s The English (Viking, $17.95). . . . Grandma Moses, by Otto Kallir boasts 1,353 illustrations (Abrams; $32.50 till Jan. 1, then $40). . . . The Eddie Condon Scrapbook of Jazz has a foreword by the late John Steinbeck and hundreds of photos (St. Martin’s, Oct., $17.50). . . . Robert M. Ketchum’s Will Rogers has over 400 illustrations (McGraw-Hill, $12.95 till Jan. 1, then $15; deluxe edition $15 till Jan. 1, then $17.50). . . . The Middle Ages is an illustrated history of daily life by Robert Delort (Universe, Oct., $35). . . . The Layman’s Parallel Bible is a good idea: parallel columns of the King James Version, the Modern Language Bible, the Living Bible and the Revised Standard Version (Zondervan, 2 bindings: $14.95 and $19.95).

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Just Out: In The American Connection, John Pekkanen charges the drug industry with fighting efforts to control pill-popping (Follett, $7.95). . . . Indiana reissues Leon Edel’s study of Literary Biography ($5.95; paper, $1.95). . . . They said it couldn’t be done, but James C. Gleeson and Brian Meyer have translated Ogden Nash into Latin in Ave Ogden! (Little, Brown, $5.95). . . . Retired from teaching but still writing, Sidney Hook probes Education and the Taming of Power (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Forty former boxing champs tell their stories in Peter Heller’s In This Corner. . . ! (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). . . . Abortion and Social Justice is a collection of essays sponsored by Americans United for Life, 230 N. Michigan, Chicago 60601.

Christmas Gift Books: Now out and amply illustrated, J. B. Priestley’s The English (Viking, $17.95). . . . Grandma Moses, by Otto Kallir boasts 1,353 illustrations (Abrams; $32.50 till Jan. 1, then $40). . . . The Eddie Condon Scrapbook of Jazz has a foreword by the late John Steinbeck and hundreds of photos (St. Martin’s, Oct., $17.50). . . . Robert M. Ketchum’s Will Rogers has over 400 illustrations (McGraw-Hill, $12.95 till Jan. 1, then $15; deluxe edition $15 till Jan. 1, then $17.50). . . . The Middle Ages is an illustrated history of daily life by Robert Delort (Universe, Oct., $35). . . . The Layman’s Parallel Bible is a good idea: parallel columns of the King James Version, the Modern Language Bible, the Living Bible and the Revised Standard Version (Zondervan, 2 bindings: $14.95 and $19.95).