THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CURMUDGEON —Harold L. Ickes—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3).
"If, in these pages, I have hurled an insult at anyone, be it known that such was my deliberate intent, and I may as well state flatly now that it will be useless and a waste of time to ask me to say that I am sorry."
With these characteristic words, Harold Le( )Cla(i)r(e)* I ekes throws a drawerful of gantlets into a gallery of faces and squares off. In his 350 pages Curmudgeon Ickes knots himself up in every possible variety and...