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Marriage being the subtle and precarious entente that it is. and politics being outranked only by religious and racial differences as a catalyst of conflict, it would seem that a novel about the marriage of a bone-bred conservative and a dogmatic liberal must at least provide a rattling good battle-report. For a time it looks as if this is what First Novelist Le Comte has produced. "He" is John Butterworth. a rather stuffy young Yale man who considers himself to be the best Latin teacher in the country. "She" is his wife Herta. a beautiful Viennese Jewish girl...
...turned sick and sour. When Connie Tyler, fresh out of Harvard, came to Hindon in 1900 as a cub reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control by their own Irish and Italian mill hands, they retreated to the banks and sulked. One by one they ran their family businesses into the ground, draining off profits and refusing to replace worn-out machines...
...sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious strivings to find a better way for men, women and children to live together must impress the same observers...
...been publicly blasted by Venetian Way's trainer and fired as the horse's rider for finishing a poor fifth in the Preakness to Bally Ache (who missed the Belmont with a swollen foot). Owned by a retired Boston banker named Joseph O'Connell, the English-bred Celtic Ash had trained for more than a year for the i½-mile grind of the Belmont, paid off its backers at 8 to 1. Said Jockey Hartack: "He sure was dying...
...Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that a dutiful husband and son could not fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy...