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The jacket blurbs of Frederic Prokosch's latest book proudly advertise the conversion of "one of our finest descriptive writers" into a man who for the first time makes his background subordinate to his action, wastes no time on externals, and turns out a story with a good, vigorous plot...
¶ In 1936, says Episcopal Minister Frederic Kellogg of Cambridge, Mass., only about 35 Harvard students showed up for Sunday Episcopal services. Now 500 come on Sundays and 200 come on Wednesdays. Church attendance in the Yard is also up-from 400 two years ago to an average Sunday turn...
FREDERIC C. DUMAINE JR. and associates have given up hope of winning back control of the New Haven railroad, have sold their 131,000 shares of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad preferred stock to a group friendly to Patrick B.
High Command. In San Francisco, after he was arrested and fined for doing 75 m.p.h. on the Golden Gate Bridge Frederic E. Supple Jr. told the judge: "My wife phoned and told me to come right home."
The real distinction of The Despcrate Hours, though, comes out of the performance of Frederic March as the head of the beleaguered household. He is almost majestic in the role of a man left quite alone with nothing but his own courage and brain in a situation where society cannot...