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...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP, by Robert Coover. 242 pages. Random House...
Such literary facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an excellent attempt...
...things, it is a humorous evocation of the characters and the ambiance that have given baseball its mythic quality. Bernard Malamud's The Natural was a strikingly effective allegory of the baseball hero as a contemporary Sir Percival who in the end is destroyed by the myth-hungerers. Coover is less morally emphatic. He does suggest that God cannot forestall man's doom, and that man can destroy himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...
...partial cure for the wheat surplus, Kansas Merchant and Wheat Farmer Morris Coover last week offered a new recipe for bread, using 16% more wheat flour in every loaf and retailing for 10 more. Coover, backed by the Western Kansas Development Association, last week flew 500 loaves of his heavier, darker and more nutritious bread to Washington for sampling in the Senate & House restaurants...
...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...