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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Author Paul Bowles finishes with them in The Sheltering Sky, his first novel, Port has slipped through his zero into death by typhoid, and Kit's zero has become a noose plaited from strands of nymphomania and insanity. All this may be taken straight as simply a lurid, supersexy Sahara adventure story completely outfitted with camel trains, handsome Arabs, French officers and a harem. Nonetheless, The Sheltering Sky is a remarkable job of writing, with a craftsmanship that makes it the most interesting first novel to come from a U.S. writer this year...
Through a shrewd winnowing of repetitious and overwritten pieces, Editor Goodman manages to show Hearn at his best, but still does not succeed in lifting him into the first rank of19th Century U.S. writers. Lafcadio Hearn's brightest virtues were the human compassion that sweetened all of his work, and his ability to spin out atmosphere like yard after yard of fine Japanese silk...
Test Case. In Dayton, the first complete electric power failure since the 1913 flood, cut off a radio invitation to visit the formal opening of the city's new electric Dower plant...
...freshman basketball team, operating this year under a new coach, Floyd Wilson, outdistanced a weak Tufts '53 squad Saturday night at the Indoor Athletic Building to win their first game...
Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...