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...LITTLE SAINT, by Georges Simenon. In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, the great French whodunist has made a serious and nonviolent attempt to describe the life of an artist, "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." The extraordinary thing about the book is that it succeeds...
...500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, Simenon accepts a handicap that only a master could overcome: The Little Saint is a book in which nothing happens. The hero is "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in a poor quarter of Paris he sees pictures in his head; all through his adult life he translates these pictures into paintings. His life is a variety of religious experience-scarcely an exciting subject for fiction. Simenon nevertheless discovers a shimmering excitement in the subject. He sets up two poles of vitality...
...pared the payroll, streamlined the assembly line and installed cost accounting. This year, as a result, O'Day Corp. expects to make a $90,000 profit at last; there was a happy champagne celebration at the company's Fall River, Mass., factory last week when the 1,500th Day Sailer and the 1,000th Rhodes 19 both were hauled out of the plant. "From here on, it's downwind all the way," enthused George...
Having recently reached its 500th performance, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic and unsentimental dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, still has zest and impact...
...Totally disregarding New York Player-Coach Doug Harvey, who was clinging grimly to his right leg, Detroit's Gordie Howe expertly slipped a one-handed shot past Ranger Goalie Gump Worsley for the 500th goal of his 16-year career. Still a relatively youthful-and mighty aggressive-33, Howe needs only 45 more goals to break the National Hockey League scoring record set by Montreal's famed Maurice ("Rocket") Richard...