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...china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers is a book of little form, but the substance is fresh, and all the accidents, coincidences and rashes of sentimentality are not allowed to get too far beyond life's normal quota...
Callahan isn't quite sure just how the Crimson squad will emerge from this stiff competition. Poor weather has confined its practice to the Briggs Cage "dustbowl." Furthermore, he points out that "it's pretty hard to tell anything about the squad before it has played in actual competition." He does admit that the club will be out to avenge the terrible 31-0 beating they got from the Tigers last year and to win the traditional Yale game...
Last week the judges announced the winners: a squirming pen-and-ink satire on Picassomania, by Adolf Dehn; a crowd of bereaved workers' wives, by Georges Schreiber; a suicide, by Anton Refregier; a murder, by Fred Ellis; a death in the Dustbowl, by Bernard Steffen. Popular choice: a train wreck by Lionel S. Reiss...