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The yearning to get rich quick never dies. All over California and the Pacific Northwest, abandoned gold mines are being prepared for reopening, and general stores in gold-producing areas are doing big business in over-the-counter sales of picks, shovels, mining pans and how-to pamphlets. One Seattle...
> When Robert Berston's father died in 1967, he left a $100,000 trust fund which his son was to receive at age 45. If the son died before then, with out having any children, the money would go to a school. Berston's mother, from whom his...
Makk and his two superb actresses excel at capturing the ambivalences between the old lady and her daughter-in-law, the mingling of affection and exasperation, rivalry and devotion. Soon, but quietly, the old lady dies. Not long afterward, her son (Ivan Darvas) is released from prison, with as little...
This is not, of course, an accident. Hitler himself would have approved the mythic stature (if not the odium) that posterity has accorded him: his entire life was conceived as a prodigious drama - "Qualis artifex pereo!" as Nero is supposed to have said ("What an artist dies with me!"). Even...
MIDWAY IN THE BOOK, in perhaps the inest chapter, Starr uses the life and thoughts of Jack London as an allegory of the potential tragedy hidden in the dream. As a writer, London rises out of the working class to national fame and wealth. As he becomes rich and famous...