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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will...
Last week the second volume dealing with the O'Neills did both. The best of James Farrell's books to date, No Star Is Lost is also his mellowest and most imaginative, has little of the rancor (so strong that it sometimes seemed Author Farrell hated all his characters and all their kin) that marred his previous novels. No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother...
Nine Chains to the Moon is not Author Fuller's first demonstration of his invincible faith in man's future. Designer of the famed Dymaxion- house, inventor of the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller is a New Englander who looks like a businessman and talks like a prophet of the coming technological millennium. A Harvard alumnus, he decoded radio messages in the navy during the War, became a manufacturer of molds for reinforced concrete afterwards, and in 1927, when he lost control of his business, settled in Chicago slums for a year to work...
...middle-aged observation on contemporary youth, Bricks Without Straw belongs in a category with Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Howard Spring's My Son, My Son! Compared with the jaundiced eyes of Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot...
Despite its brutal theme, Horns For Our Adornment shows an underlying sympathy for its characters which, by comparison with the unadulterated nihilism of Celine (TIME, Aug. 29), makes Sandemose seem buoyant with human feeling. This quality to some readers may be as shocking as the author's merciless realism...