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...HAMLET-William Faulkner -Random House...
...locale of The Hamlet is Frenchman's Bend, a little clump of houses sunk 20 miles deep in the country from Jefferson (presumably Oxford), Miss. The time is the late 19th Century. What the story's essential subject is, God-and just possibly William Faulkner-knows. Apparently it is a study of the village itself, chiefly in terms of an evil clan of intruders named Snopes. The volume is built in four books, like the four movements of a symphony...
...back-to-the-wall years on the Municipal Council, which also had to triple its $1,000,000 budget last week to keep pace with the stumbling Chinese dollar, Council Chairman Cornell S. Franklin announced his intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this...
Citizens of Montclair, N. J. had a mighty pretty letter in their mail last week. The letter, from Mayor William E. Speers and Director of Revenue and Finance Bayard H. Faulkner, said that the town treasury had a surplus of half a million dollars. "What do you think?" said the letter, "would you rather reduce the town's debt another $100,000, leaving $400,000 to cut 1940 taxes-or cut 1940 taxes the full $500,000? The enclosed postcard is for your judgment. . . ." When Montclair's taxpayers had calmed down sufficiently to reply, they answered that they...
...WILD PALMS-William Faulkner -Random House...