Books: Innocent Abroad

RICHARD HALLIBURTON—His Story of His Life's Adventure—Bobbs-Merrill ($3.75).

When, at the age of 22, Richard Halliburton lawlessly hid in the shrubbery, watched the Taj Mahal and his chance by moonlight, and swam in the lily-padded pool, he was neither putting on a show nor concocting copy: he was simply a college boy on the loose, a little bit crazy with romantic enthusiasm.

When, three years later, he wrote "Monday I was free to climb over the darned walls and spend a night alone in the Parthenon," a lot of water had gone under the...

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