Books: Newspaper Wife

YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN—Katharine Brush—Farrar & Rinehart ($2).

Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get...

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