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What is missing from Gibbsville? Human and intellectual qualities, the lack of which also disfigured the work of another U.S. writer who chose success and snobbery for his theme. O'Hara, like Scott Fitzgerald, is a writer of great natural talent but, like Fitzgerald, disappoints in the end for the poverty of his general ideas and tawdriness of his notions of a good life. It is odd that both of these very American writers should go into such an un-American swivet as to who sits below whose salt. Yet Fitzgerald, in his delighted fellow-travels with the rich...
PAPA MARRIED A MORMON (298 pp.) -John D. Fitzgerald -Prentice-Hall...
Papa Married a Mormon is a mock bucolic western in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and kin. Take his Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest...
...Sergeant FitzGerald said that the couple was sitting in a car at 10:45 p.m. when the man walked up to them, drew a gun, and forced the girl to go with him. Second later, FitzGerald, who patrols the area, passed the car and was told what had happened. He gave chase and the attacker fled. FitzGerald then called the Cambridge police...
...Powers' headquarters, however, Manager John Fitzgerald, Jr. contradicted newspaper predictions that a heavy vote would mean reelection for Hynes. "Newspapers don't vote," he asserted. "They're pushing Hynes, but the people are for Powers. We're going to slaughter Hynes...