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...yard medley and the 200-yard breaststroke. Springfield freshman Jack Mayers turned in a good 1:39.2 time in the comparatively new medley race, and Indian Bill Yorzyt, who was second to Dave Hedberg in the 220 freestyle, finished the breaststroke ahead of Harvard's Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson...
...storms, accidents, Indian attacks, childbirth, rape, dissension, the rigors of the Rockies and the heat of Death Valley. The passengers themselves are just as varied e.g., a French girl (Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine-year-old boy. In the tradition of Frank Capra, who supplied the story for Scripter Charles Schnee, Westward the Women deploys its ample stock company and wealth of incident...
...grand tour of American literary history, the strengths and weaknesses of his five volumes are abundantly clear. Anyone looking for profound criticism-of say, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Sister Carrie-will not find it here. Nor is it impressive as intellectual history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness of Vernon Parrington's Main Currents...
...strain that runs through the verse volume is one of complaint at overcrowding in the Yard. For instance, an excerpt from the year 1909 deals with Emerson Hall thus...
...Emerson a hall is reared...