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LITTLE BIG MAN by Thomas Berger. 440 pages. Dial...
...this fashion, Author Thomas Berger introduces Jack Crabb, who surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed from the Olden Time Fronteer. Berger solemnly declares that Crabb was "either the most neglected hero in the history of this country or a liar of insane proportions." Crabb, in fact, is both, which is just what Berger intended him to be. As relived by Crabb in Berger's telling, the legends and the romanticized history of the West are comically disassembled, like Hamlets seen from backstage. Typical is Crabb's meeting with Wyatt Earp...
Weightlifter Isacca Berger finished second in the featherweight division to complete the United States' accumulation of medals...
...would bring the movies to them. This, the first of two films to be shown this season, is a story of an international conspiracy involving a crooked cartel and three orphaned children who possess evidence that could destroy it. Called "See How They Run," it stars Austrian Beauty Senta Berger, John Forsythe and Franchot Tone. Color...
...this has a familiar purr. The beautiful women now have names like Brooke Hayward and Senta Berger, but the whole scene recalls the young Boyer of Algiers, the fathomless possibilities of Hedy Lamarr, and the line he is legendary for whispering to her: "Come wiz me to zee casbah." Actually, there was no such line in the movie, nor in any other movie Boyer ever made. It came from an old comedy-radio show. But Boyer wears it gracefully...