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...Traven Torsvan," a naturalized Mexican citizen. The dead man's widow acknowledged what had been widely suspected: that Torsvan, who had hidden his identity for 45 years, was indeed the reclusive novelist B. Traven. The author's broody, metallic style echoes that of Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad. His once acclaimed books and short-story collections (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Death Ship, The Rebellion of the Hanged, The Man Nobody Knows) were half-forgotten. The man seemed more compelling than his work...
...JOSEPH CONRAD...
...sewer renovation will affect all areas of the city, Conrad C. Fagone, commissioner of public works, said yesterday...
Inevitably, the strange sight of the two ungainly aircraft, one on top of the other, inspired a steady stream of barnyard jokes. In the Los Angeles Times, Cartoonist Paul Conrad sketched the intertwined pair perched on a runway and captioned his drawing: "Not tonight, Dear, I have a headache...
...hard to find fault with this voluminous first novel of brutality at sea. Joseph Conrad and John Dos Passes, writing in shifts, might have been able to handle its alternating themes: the oppression of sailors during a perilous voyage from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco, and the near dissolution of U.S. society into class war preceding the presidential election of 1896. The first 50 pages show that Author Sterling Hayden, movie star turned writer, has little hope of bringing his book under artistic control...