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This edition of the CRIMSON, a charitable attempt to redout a Sauntering undergraduate series, was written and edited by graduate members from the Everett Street area of northern Cambridge, with the able assistance of a town planner from the Harvard Bridge District. They are as follows: Edward J. Coughlin Jr. '52 3L. Phillip M. Cronin '53 2L. Richard M. Edelman '52 3L, Robert E. Herestein '52 3L Rudolph Kass '52 2L, Samuel B. Potter '53 2L, David L. Ratner '52 3L, Malcolm D. Rivkin '53, R. Johnson Shortlidge '50 2L, James M. Storey '52 2L, and Charles E. Zeitlin...
...Coughlin shows us the young author as the townspeople of Oxford, Mississippi saw him in the years following the first world war. Not much of a success at anything, borrowing money from his friends and doing odd jobs of carpentry to live, he wandered through the streets silently, sometimes barefootel, and stood musing for hours in front of the old curthouse, a proud, shabby questionmark...
Returning to the present and to Faculkner's adventures in Hollywood, however, Coughlin weakens the book with an overdose of anecdotes. He seems to become so involved with the writer's eccentricities that, instead of trying to explain them or put them in proper perspective, he piles amusing incidents on the reader so heavily that the chapter largely destroys the clear outline of Faulkner the man that he has sketched in the earlied part of the book...
...world which Coughlin reveals in his book, moreover, is not really Faulkner's private world. There is a distinct feeling that he is looking in, that he has failed to get beneath the surface or Faulkner's life and is only recording, as fully and as competently as possible, the externals of this world...
...externals are interesting in themselves, and Coughlin has reproduced them faithfully. If the Faulkner student accepts the limitations of this study, he will find much in it to interest and amuse...