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Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar and High Sierra (TIME...
Little Men, Big World moves fast, beats with excitement. Veteran Crime Novelist W. R. Burnett (Little Caesar; High Sierra) knows the underworld jungle and has a keen ear for its talk. In his study of Arky's misplaced loyalty, he even tries to find some human motive behind the squalor of his story. In the search, he overdoes the idea that most of Arky's hoodlum ways can be explained by a poverty-stricken boyhood. Otherwise, the book is almost as unsentimental as Frank Costello on television...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Genteel English characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
...Lord Jeffs, and was in trouble from the outset. Russ Damon started the game with a walk and went to third on a single by Sam Crowe, who took second on the throw-in. Dick Dingley struck out and John McGrath walked to fill the bases. Then Howie Burnett hit down to second, Tom Cavanaugh flipped the ball to John White to force McGrath, and White threw the ball over Russ Johnson's head at first, allowing Damon and Crowe to score...