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David McDonald is a big (6 ft. 2 in. 220 Ibs.) man and true, who eats his buffalo liver raw and sometimes wonders whether he is a man or a moose. In the 23rd book of his long and musky career, saga-gaga Novelist Vardis Fisher (Testament of Man, seven volumes so far, five to come) surrounds David & Co. with tons of Indians-bucks, squaws, half-breeds-plus prairies full of buffalo meat, oceans of rum, and a plot made of walrus blubber. David is a deep thinker, but on somewhat specialized lines; he broods mostly on pemmican and squaws...
...Powell's gaga saga has gathered an odd and diverting cast of characters who make their entrances and exits, as people do in life, with no particular design. In The Acceptance World he shuffles them in all their inconsequence into the Great Depression, or as the British prefer to call it, "The Slump." The early '30s have been both mourned and deplored, but never quite so coldly derided...
When Jacy and Olive are not making beautiful bedchamber music together. Jacy is a gaga, gee-whiz tourist-about-London: "So this was the London bobby!" . . . " 'I am present.' said Jacy happily, 'at the reopening of the Covent Garden Opera House in nineteen forty-six . . .' " Somewhere along the line, Jacy discovers that the secret of English greatness is "continuity." To do his bit for continuity, Jacy agrees to help the Floristers reopen the historic old family theater with a hands-across-the-sea play about Pocahontas and John Smith...
When Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio nine months ago, many newspapers went slightly gaga, and some even disregarded history and hailed it as the "Romance of the Century." The calendar girl who rose to fame "in a birthday suit," crooned the Los Angeles Herald & Express had found bliss with a man who achieved success "in a baseball suit." Last week U.S. dailies figured they had an even bigger story about Marilyn...
...submit with servility!" she cries, for she is a New England miss. "Such spirit amuses me," murmurs Omar, the Aga of the Janissaries (Bart Roberts), lecherously twirling his lip-tussock, and off she is hauled to his harem, there to be anointed with fragrant scents that drive the Aga gaga...