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...these novels are definitely vintage models which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss...
...belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd Schulberg...
...Waterfront has a script that is a work of love and shows it. To the facts presented in Malcolm Johnson's 1949 Pulitzer Prizewinning stories on the New York waterfront (in the late New York Sun), Novelist Budd Schulberg (The Disenchanted) added the results of his own investigations. The product strikes the raucous but curiously subtle pitch of the great port as surely as an octet of harmonizing tugboats...
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, second biggest in New England (after the New Haven), will spend $11.2 million to revamp its passenger service, has ordered twelve diesels. a fleet of 55 high-speed, self-propelled stainless-steel commuter cars to be built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. Delivery date...
...their table conversation, Professor Davenport also makes them deliver oral reports. By the end of the year, says he, his class should have covered a lot of reading without a single whereas. Among the books on his list: Dreiser's An American Tragedy (murder), Melville's Billy Budd (admiralty law), Trollope's Orley Farm (perjury and forgery), and Dickens' Bleak House-"a wonderful example," says Davenport, "of the slow machinery of the law and how it bankrupts everybody before the trial is over...