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Gone were the days when people paid $15 a night to sleep on floors, when hackies made $300 a week. $30-a-day hotel rooms were going for $8. Merchants were marking down such items as $300 watches to $165, and case lots of Old Crow from $83.88 to $75.49. In eleven days of horseplay at Hialeah, only $9,500,000 was bet, a $2,600,000 drop compared with the same period last year. Receipts were off, too, at the dog tracks...
Last week the first major cracks appeared in the wall of Jim Crow education...
Organized crow had come a long way since the '50's, when the men would take the shell down the Charles to Boston every night in order to got drunk. It was through the magenta handkerchiefs the crew were around their heads that Harvard got its color and the new journal its name...
...leading characters are Johnny Somers, history teacher; Crow Johnson, a hard-eyed, mean, man-about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
...wife Blackie is as amoral as Bill, but far more intelligent, moving from Bill to his brother-in-law, from a happily married man to Johnny Somers, and from innocent Somers to a rural Machiavellian, Crow Johnson, managing violently dramatic exposures of her lovers, public humiliations, or rejoicing in such gothic scenes as an embrace beside a corpse...