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...into battle against Goliath; using roughly 82,000 cliched words per stone, the author indulges in literary overkill, with her sling relentlessly aimed at the bestseller lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys than from life; her Negro dialect...
...Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...
Mother, though not always in the money, saw to it that young George became a spiffy dresser, and for a time he found work as a male model. He wangled his way to Hollywood with the aid of Mother's good friend, Actress Mae Murray. Never one to overlook an angle, he bought a 1939 Rolls-Royce -and thus began "my image of the rich boy dabbling in pictures...
Died. General Thomas Dresser White, 64, Air Force Chief of Staff, from 1957 to 1961; of leukemia; in Washington. An unrelenting advocate of ever stronger air power who fought vainly for the Air Force's experimental B70 supersonic bomber, General White felt that rigid reliance on missiles was "tantamount to the Maginot Line" and that the theory of mutual deterrence gave a false sense of invulnerability. "The only safe strategy," he said, was "imbalance-with a vast preponderance on our side...
...ELEANOR L. DRESSER...