Dartmouth Authors
Frank Orenstein '40, Murder on MadisonAvenue. St. Martin's Press, 1983. 228 pp., cloth. A cynical, unflappable vice president of research for Finch, Rowan & Hyde finds himself caught up in the most demanding assignment of his ad agency career when murder follows murder and even the business of sorting out why women will or won't buy Belle Bottoms jeans has to take second place to sorting out who the killer is. Along the way the reader is treated to some wryly amusing observations about the fast-paced, high-pressured advertising world, and the ambitious men and women who inhabit it.
Berthold Eric Schwarz '46, M.D.,UFO-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome. Rainbow Books/Betty Wright, 1983. Vol. I, 301 pp., Vol. 11, 260 pp., paper. From the preface: "... professional experiences have hammered home the message that . . . close encounter UFO cases are not at all rare and there are no ready-made answers for them. The UFO syndrome poses complex near-insoluble problems. But . . . numerous examples have pointed out the urgent need for some organized collection of psychiatric studies which spell out various techniques and methods using actual, first-hand, concrete examples. . . . UFO-Dynamics is an attempt to fill that gap."
Ronald L. Heinemann '61, Depressionand New Deal in Virginia: The EnduringDominion. University Press of Virginia, 1983. 267 pp., cloth. The author, a professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College, has written an account of what happened when the fiscal and social conservatism of Governor Harry Byrd came up against F.D.R. and his remedies for the Great Depression, and in the process has produced "the first substantial examination of Virginia during the thirties." One important feature of the book is its inclusion of the reminiscences of some of those who lived through the period it deals with; from sharecroppers to attorneys and many others comes a vivid sense of troubled (but in Virginia not too troubled) times.
Howard Soroos '64, ACF/TCAM BasicStructure and Flow. 1983. 365 pp., paper. (Obtainable through Science Research Associates.) ACF/TCAM is a system of computer software used to support large communications systems in many businesses including airlines, railroads, banks, and brokerage houses. This text is intended primarily for those who will instal or support or maintain that system, and is organized so as to build up the reader's knowledge to the point where there is understanding of the decisions that go to generating a message control program.
Henry A. Buchtel '64, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has edited The Conceptual Nervous System (Pergamon Press, 1982) a selection of papers by Donald O. Hebb detailing his work on brain and human behavior. And Joel M. Noe D.M.S. '67 is the co-editor of Chronic Problem Wounds (Little, Brown, 1983) a book which illuminates a disorder requiring the cooperation of a complex health care team.
Two very well received Dartmouth-related books have recently been issued in elegant new formats: Fifty Hikes in the White Mountains by Daniel Doan '36, newly revised and updated, is published by Backcountry Publications of Woodstock, Vermont; and Professor Charles Wood's The Age ofChivalry has been re-issued by the University Press of New England under the title The Quest for Eternity: Manners and Morals inthe Age of Chivalry.
