24 DECEMBER 1954, page 21

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The Humor of Humor. By Evan Esar. (Phoenix I 2s. 6d.) A skEreit by Lord Kinross, read in isolation in Punch, is always funny, sometimes wildly so, but because of its brevity,......

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