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Neighborhood Association members contend that Harvard merely wanted to curry favor with KellyFarquarson, who heads both the NHS and aquasi-governmental body that advises the city onzoning decisions. By selling NHS theland--allegedly at an unusually low price--Harvardhoped Farquarson would support Harvard's bid todevelop the Longwood Ave. property, Brookins said...
...outset, a wealthy and evil man named Farquarson lies dying in his mansion in Lake Forest, Ill. Years ago he railroaded his redundant wife into a mental institution, where she had a son by another inmate. Said inmate, a violent man named Helenowski, vowed deadly vengeance on the world. As the novel begins he has escaped and is busy killing people...
...Farquarson telephones a middle-aged detective named Arnold Magnuson. A widower, full of regretful guilt and woe, Magnuson wants to atone for his life by catching the criminal. He roars about Chicago and its suburbs in an antique Duesenberg, arriving at the scene of murder after murder too late to do anything except get blood on his shoes. Over and over again, and very well, the author describes the Duesenberg, describes the rush of night driving, the murders, the blood and Magnuson's florid mental state...
Author Smith also offers two baroque subplots, one involving the lost identity of Mrs. Farquarson's son, now grown to adulthood and doubt, and the other an entirely self-contained gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...
...James Farquarson Leys '22 has been awarded the Advocate's prize of $25 for the best story submitted in the recent contest. The second and third best stories were held by the judges to have been those submitted by D. Burden '22 and Arthur K. Train '23. The winning story will appear in the February number of the Advocate, which will be issued in about a week...
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