AMAZING BUT TRUE!

By Douglas F. Storer '21. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960, a3 pp. #5.75.

That amazing wanderer and world traveler, Doug Storer '21, has recently returned from a tour of eleven European and middle eastern nations, and the results of this tour, plus an assiduous collecting of unusual and odd facts, are reflected in his latest book Amazing But True! In photographs and text Mr. Storer has put together a unique collection of those astounding and sometimes historical oddities that leave us with a chuckle of amusement or a gasp of amazement.

Among the items detailed are a cathedral made of a mountain of salt, the world's smallest drawbridge, the grave of Peter Stuyvesant's leg and, on a more serious plane, the memorial at Pearl Harbor, the Bounty Bible and the surrender of 20,000 German troops to a photographer. Of particular interest to alumni will be Mr. Storer's Report on Dartmouth's "Pioneer Museum of Natural History," the oldest in this country, and his description of the first medical X-ray in history performed in 1896 by Dr. Gilman Frost at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover.

The former president of Ripley's "Believe it or Not!" company and the guiding genius behind Ripley, Mr. Storer has spent more than a quarter of a century in collecting the unusual. He has ranged the world in search of the exotic and those oddities which make interesting reading and study. Over one hundred of these finds are contained in this current volume — an interesting and highly recommended book for young and old alike.