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Left Ear Salad. Flagg's book is entitled Roses and Bucks'ot (Putnam;$3.75). The roses are reserved for himself and a multitude of boon and swoon companions; the buckshot flies in all directions...
During the next week of preparation for the Annapolis race Boon Chanler was elected captain and the spectre of measles and fevers of unidentified origin continued to make life miserable for Bolles. The two heavy crews he sent to Annapolis had collectively lost four men more before they ever reached the starting line. With the dice loaded against them, the Varsity boat brought up the tail end in the nine-way regatta (won by Wisconsin) and suffered the ignominy of trailing both M.I.T. and Princeton, their meat of a week before. In their race, the Jayvees did a little better...
Part Score. Dramatically, Part I beats Part II all hollow. It is more tightly knit, it moves with greater speed and swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...
...touch them if she did, because of the amount of liquor involved. In our March 1943 issue we ran a story by Craig Rice . . . which featured that hard-drinking little criminal lawyer, John J. Malone, whom readers of Craig Rice's books will remember as Jake Justus' boon and bar companion. In other words, he is no teetotaler at any time...
...latest news on artificial limbs came from an unusual quarter. Boon Stiles, 38, a veteran of the Casablanca landing, landed in San Quentin in 1944 for writing a bad check for $54. There he took up his old hobby-making artificial limbs...