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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also engages in an unusually brutal fight with the heavy's henchman (Forrest Tucker). One novel detail of the fight: they stomp one another's trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...
Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
When the fit is on him, Author Allen writes with some economy and an eye for the telling detail. But in general, he lets his wagon ride cheerfully in all the worn ruts of narrative, less concerned with where he is going than with what can be seen along the way. Stern readers, for whom an adventure story is not enough, may well ask, "Is this trip necessary?" and for them the answer is no; but those who like historical atmosphere laid on thickly and with some skill will find it in Hervey Allen's latest...
...facile speaker and hard worker,with a keenly analytical mind, Steinhardt likes to keep his finger on every last detail. He will have it easier in Ottawa. But his service in Ottawa might be brief. Should a Republican Administration take over next January, Steinhardt would follow tradition and offer his resignation. As a good Democrat he could be pretty sure that it would be accepted...
...authoritative document, though it has some of the quality of both. The characterizations of the engineers and contractors and dike workers are not in themselves of sufficient interest to carry the story, and the depersonalized project, impressive as an example of courage and tenacity, turned out in detail to be just hard work. But some of the processes of the water workers-especially the fascine workers, who lace brushwood mattresses to be spread like skin on the ocean floor, to prevent the channels from deepening-make absorbing reading. And some of the glimpses of daily life in the occupation...