Books: The Six Sousas

MY FAMILY, RIGHT OR WRONG—John Philip Sousa III—Doubleday, Doran ($2).

John Philip Sousa III (grandson of the late, great bandmaster John Philip Sousa) has written one of those hilarious life-with-father stories in which the day-to day doings of a respectable U.S. family suggest a quiet hour in bedlam.

To a ramshackle house in Chilapa, Calif, moved six Sousas:

> Author John Philip — "the only entirely normal member of the family."

> Little Sister Nancy. Nancy "didn't bother much with the customary rules for the conduct of human beings," slept winter and summer clad in her...

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