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...Human Interest (which ranks ahead of Outdoor Life & Sports, Humor and Religion in popularity). Chicago's Harry Anderson, who has done a series of annual calendar celebrations of American boyhood, painted Hurry Up. Using opaque water-colors (because he is allergic to turpentine), he makes pictures that are just true enough to life and no more imaginative than the market calls...
...Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to the haunts of his boyhood and shows why Scrooge went bad--a father who hated him, a sister whose love for her husband killed her, and a growing realization that the world was a rough place. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows dishevelled, wide-eyed Scrooge, the pathetic picture of Bob Cratchit's family, which could be happy though poor. But most effective, both to Scrooge and the audience, is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come who never speaks but just points to Scrooge's old love (now working in a poor...
Mitchum, who owes Ryan a grudge from boyhood, finally gets his man, but not before the racketeer blows up his home, bumps off a talkative political candidate, twists the assistant state's attorney into cringing obedience and, swaggering into the police station, shoots a cop and walks away. Also present: a hard-looking nightclub thrush (Lizabeth Scott) with a heart of gold, and a reporter (Robert Hutton) who loves her at first sight...
...years between, he feels his life was shaped by his first crime, which affirmed, for him, a boyhood suspicion that he was different from other people. So he consciously enforces "normality" on himself, makes himself act like the people around him, advocates order and authority; joins the Fascist Party as a secret policeman, and marries a "normal" girl he does not love. When he finds alive the man he thought he had shot, he realizes that the act had nothing to do with shaping his life. The book concludes that man is snared in his own destiny...
...without a country, or feels he is. Illegitimate son of a sporty Italo-American lawyer-millionaire and a destitute Kentucky belle, he spends his boyhood caroming around Europe. When he gets to the U.S. and Harvard Law School, the strain of being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict...