Funny

THE GAZELLE'S EARS--Corey Ford --Doran ($2). Funnyman Ford's average of irresistibility remains close to normal, despite the current sunspots and a slump in stocks. His tendency is to play the same style of shot for about 25 paragraphs and then hole out with a neat pun even a chip shot, straight from the shoulder. Irrelevance at all costs, old family bywords in new surroundings, let the meaning where it may--that is the dialectic of Fordian funning, on traffic problems, bicycling for ladies, telephones, going to college and other major sports. Readers of the New Yorker will meet a lot of ( friends, notably "our Mr. Busts Tilley," factotum, of funny publishing. The organs referred to by the title are missing for a while, at a clubmen's bachelor dinner but turn up safe and sound next day in an overcoat pocket.