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Passing through Scandinavia, as he has many times for 40 years. Veteran Foreign Correspondent Negley (The Way of a Transgressor) Farson made his customary mental notes about those happy lands. The landscape: "refreshingly beautiful." The cities: "no slums." Social legislation: "far ahead." Chief characteristic: "about the last place in Europe where sanity still survived." But on one point Farson found himself baffled. "Why," he wrote to Denmark's biggest newspaper. Berlingske Tidende, "in countries noted for their social services and the almost universal kindness of one man to another, in lands where legislation seemed to have abolished most...
Some argued that the Danes simply keep more accurate statistics on suicides. Said Farson: "That plea I won't accept...
Drawing the Maps. Gunther as a book-journalist lacks the originality and profundity of Rebecca (Meaning of Treason) West, the stylistic graces of Negley (Way of a Transgressor) Farson, John (Hiroshima) Hersey or Vincent (Personal History) Sheean. Yet none matches him for sheer scope, reportorial zest, or, most notably, the gift of popularizing remote places and difficult subjects. Says Critic Clifton Fadiman: "Gunther is a born teacher; he doesn't miss a fact-trick. His books are almost too easy to read; because of that, they seem superficial. But he's taught us a hell...
...Hemingway imitator who has made two or three safaris to Africa in the last few years, Author Ruark has obviously heard a lot of talk over the campfires and hotel bars. He has also looked over the published authorities - one of his characters quotes whole pages from Negley Farson's Last Chance in Africa. Every thing that he reports may well have happened. But the real tragedy of black-white fratricide in Africa is hopelessly drowned in gore. Something of Value is a novel without taste or distinction...
Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...