by Edwin Newman
The NBC commentator, who has written two bestsellers on English usage, tries a novel. His hero is a skinny British prizefighter who is also an economist. The antic plot and whimsical humor seem British too. But Newman, unlike P. G. Wode-house, is unable to keep his satiric bubbles in the air, though he does bring off one Washington, D.C. party that is as inane as the real thing. (Houghton Mifflin, $9.95)
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