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...bestselling novel and determined to take revenge on the town elders who long ago did in his daddy. What luck! All the elders have slept with the town's 14-year-old nymphomaniac. Smith plots to blackmail them on a statutory rape charge, and the novel is soon awash with sex and violence. The ancient Greeks knew the value of restraint; Oedipus' crime was the more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...
...instrument with more effect than the American Weekly, his peculiar contribution to Sabbath reading. A supplement parasitically attached to Hearst's Sunday papers, and purveying what detractors called "the three Cs" (crime, concupiscence and corruption), the Weekly scored a conspicuous financial success in a newspaper barony frequently awash in red ink. Right up to the Chief's death in 1951, the Weekly, with nearly 10 million circulation, made money. But last week, the businessmen who now govern the remnants of Hearst's empire were jettisoning American Weekly clients right and left in a desperate effort to keep...
...Awash in drink and glory, Newman finds his fingers filling up with whisky, and lets Gleason clean him out. Then, like all the fallen heroes in the legends, he goes down into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that...
...Board of Education of the nation's largest and sickest school system last week was awash in a mire of corruption and politics. New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, running for reelection, needed a show of indignant action to drown out the crescendo of scandals in school construction that took place under the nine-man board (which he appointed). He set about dumping the board, and five agreed to go. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, aroused by the school mess (and bucking for Wagner's Republican opponent, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz), called on the legislature...