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Meanwhile, in the lower echelons, Lowell secured fourth place in the League by thumping Leverett, 21 to 0, yesterday. The Bellboys won their fourth game of the season with a variety of passes, pitchouts, and reverses, scores being made by Esch, Wales, and Donahoe. The Bunnies could mount no dangerous attacks...
Discussions. The second book, The Anarchist, is better. Laid in 1903, it is the story of Esch, a short, red-faced, powerful bookkeeper who in a phlegmatic, almost indifferent way: 1) gets mixed up with the Social Democrats when his friend is jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical...
...third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...
When the Town Hall is burning, the jail opened, and the looters swarming in the streets, Huguenau, the deserter, perceives Esch, the visionary, walking ahead of him. "Should he knock him over the head with the rifle butt? No, that would only be silly, what was needed was something that would end the business for good. And then it overwhelmed him like an illumination-he lowered his rifle, reached Esch with a few feline tango-like leaps, and ran the bayonet into his angular back. To the murderer's great astonishment, Esch went on calmly for a few steps...
...recalled that one year ago Newsman Theodore Huntley had printed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette information about the executive session of the Senate which rejected the nomination of John Jacob Esch as Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Mr. Huntley is now Senator Reed's secretary...