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...tragicomic figure, Calman looks at it all and blinks: "Who knew what the world was coming to?" The women smoke cigarettes, the men falsify accounts. Fear of God is replaced by fear of bureaucrats. The old fixed values are suddenly gone. At the end, Calman stops the world and gets off. He hides himself in a private makeshift synagogue-a mirage of an island in the sea of change...
...Calman Jacoby begins as a simple, God-fearing small businessman. As a result of various political and social upheavals, he winds up an industrial entrepreneur. The children, as usual, go modern in their own ways. One of Calman's daughters commits the heresy of an interfaith marriage. A son-in-law, fascinated and undermined by science, moves toward that 20th century religion-substitute, psychiatry. The son-in-law's sister moves to the city and turns into a forerunner of the Career Girl...
After Princeton's loss to Harvard there were angry rumors in Tigertown about the way Calman handled his team. If Oliver loses to Harvard today his contract may not be renewed. Important people at Yale are reportedly upset over Olivar's part-time insurance business, and his career at Yale has often been spotted with controversy in the past...
...Sturgis, Ky. (pop. 2,222), which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
...dark, squally afternoon of April 3, 1950, three ex-convicts shot and killed a messenger carrying $4,960 (along with more than $35,000 in non-negotiable checks) from the Reader's Digest offices near Pleasantville, N.Y. Two months later the killers were arrested. Tried and convicted were Calman Cooper, a paroled bandit, Harry Stein, a sullen thug, and Nathan Wissner, a habitual criminal. They were sentenced to die the week of Feb. 11, 1951-but justice was not to come so quickly...