19 JANUARY 1962, page 20

Books

The Uses of Obscurity By WILLIAM GERHARDI M ARVELLING in the glow of turning over a new leaf at a quarrel resolved in mystic bliss by simply blaming himself and exculpating......

First Family

IT used to be said (perhaps in jest) that the American Revolution was made possible by a temporary alliance between the Lees of Vir- ginia and the Adamses of Massachusetts. The......