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...influenced in his choice of a career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...
...Search of History, though, is not really an overview. Rather, it is a series of fascinating glimpses at large fragments of history and large personalities. White's first-person narrative covers his boyhood and his experiences in China, Europe during the 50's and the Kennedy Years. The personal narrative is held together by sketchy third-person narrations describing what actually happened during the time between the big events. Not only is this switching between reportage and narration disconcerting but it underlines the book's main problems...
Barroom baritone: slightly off key. Choice of material: boyhood favorites. Yet Old Showman Joe Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, won raves from the audience attending his professional singing debut last week at a Manhattan cabaret called the Ballroom. "I'm making a public display of myself at this stage of my life," Papp, 57, began. Then he whipped out a top hat and cane and even mouthed a harmonica. After the finale and a flurry of roses at his feet, the star collapsed in his dressing room and sighed: "I could act Hamlet easier than this...
...Boyhood friend "G.J." Apostolos describes a very sensitive, and sometimes diffident, young Kerouac...
...judges are murdered in nearby towns and Inspector Rogas, a shrewd and tough police detective (played by Lino Ventura) is called in on the case to try to put together the pieces of the puzzle. At first Rogas suspects a wrongly convicted pharmacist seeking revenge on his accusers. A boyhood friend of Rogas who is now a writer for a Communist newspaper suggests that conspiratorial political machinations might be involved in the murders, but Rogas dismisses the idea...