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Died. Margaret Gabrielle Long, 64, British historical novelist (The Carnival of Florence, Moss Rose) who turned out some 170 books under at least six pen names (including Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing); in London...
...151FAREWELL BOWEN — A LONG ETERNAL
Gusto is not a common characteristic of present-day writers. Their most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
...from high school in Jackson, Tenn., he took a job as ticket agent for a midwestern bus line, soon worked his way up to traffic manager. In 1943, after a stint with another bus line, Moore organized Lone Star Coaches, and with a borrowed $2,500,000 bought out Bowen Motor Coaches of Fort Worth, second largest independent in the South. With Lone Star serving most of the Army camps in Texas, business boomed during the war; Moore expanded into Colorado and New Mexico...
...whole play by Sean O'Casey. The Shadow of a Gunman, and a handsomely turned short story by Elizabeth Bowen, An Evening in Anglo-Ireland, bring in the iron theme of revolution. The book rounds out with stories by Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty and a dozen others, a couple of eloquent political manifestoes, a little theologizing, a winsome recollection of Yeats by Oliver Gogarty, the Sirens section of Joyce's Ulysses, a late play by Yeats. About a third of the pieces, the editors note, have not previously been printed...