Faith Baldwin

This is witty, rapid-fire romance in a summer mood. Miss Baldwin obviously enjoys her spit-fire heroine and the discomfiture of her somewhat sober-sided lawyer, and with a nice dash she gives us a light modern version of "The Taming of the Shrew."

"Letty McDonald," said Mr. Talbot to the promising young lawyer he had picked to succeed him, "is young and pretty -- and quite a handful. Her father was my best friend, and I'm her legal guardian, but I'm getting too old to handle female spitfires. From now on you'll have to manage her."

"Me?" gasped David Alcott. "I don't know anything about glamour girls."

That was true. All his life David had had but one love -- the Law. Fighting his way from a small upstate town to a good job in Manhattan, he'd had no time for either girls or glamour. But when Letty McDonald -- rich, spoiled -- arrived from Europe, his education began.

(from dust jacket, inside flap): Linda Wheaton is one of the best drawn of Miss Baldwin’s many fine characters. Linda was completely secure and happy in her life. She knew just what she wanted from it and seemed to get it all. Suddenly, her happy world fell to pieces around her, and Linda went to New York, determined to get a job, be self-sufficient and not to get really involved with people again. But there were many complications in the group of Linda’s friends and she found herself involved without knowing why. Not until it was pointed out to her that “you can’t escape what you are, what you have been for over twenty years, your basic character,” did Linda face life and incidentally find happiness again.