Joke Book

Simon & Schuster ($3).

Irrepressible Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, has pasted together six anthologies in eight years (including The Bedside Book of Famous Stories, The Pocket Book of War Humor). Now he has made a 378-page collection of his favorite jokes and anecdotes. Samples :

ΒΆ An R.A.F. pilot was shot down in Occupied France, taken in by a friendly abbess and dressed as a nun. After eight weeks playing the part of a model sister, he suddenly swept a beautiful young nun into his arms. " 'Old yer 'orses, carn't...

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