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...year old College commuter was on the critical list of Faulkner Hospital early this morning, suffering from a bullet wound in the right temple...
...ambulance rushed him to the hospital, where an emergency operation was performed in an effort to save his life. Faulkner authorities said that the youth was in a "critical" condition and was under a respirator...
Sins of Omission. In U.S. dailies, Britain is still far and away the leading subject of foreign news. The coverage of Britain in the U.S. press, says London Daily Telegraph U.S. Correspondent Alex H. Faulkner, "is highly impressive both quantitatively and from the wide range of subjects covered, [although] a picture of Britain that is both adequate and interpreted . . . exists only in a few American newspapers...
...said, "but if I could be born again I would choose English. It opens much greater possibilities. Apart from Goethe and the other classics, the German language is not popular. It is not indecent to be unpopular, but this is the fact." How did he rate authors like Faulkner and Hemingway with the big names of earlier generations? "There is a colossal difference in size. Think of the forest of great authors we had in the last century . . . Measured by such standards, the authors of today become primitive miniatures." His opinion of present-day literature? "I do not read many...
...1920s. the new century seemed to be talking (and worrying) more about sex than previous ages. "Frankness" became a respectable pose for cocktail parties, parent-teachers' meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...