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...years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his present interment in the Army have not dulled the wit of George Jerome Goodman '52. He has fashioned a novel about a Harvard undergraduate whose antics defy comparison. Maybe Charlie Garnier's outlook is normal, but his projects certainly are not. The Bubble Makers is as lively a story as polished writing and a subtle sense of irony can make it. Goodman's first book is riotous reading...
...Simon Garnier, Charlie's dignified but bibulous old grandfather, is the only really complex character of the book. Unlike the others he is something more than just an amusing quantity, and Goodman has drawn him deftly. Once a Missouri Supreme Court Justice he retired from the bench with a characteristic comment: "the people is a great beast." When Charlie comes to visit his grandfather, Old Garnier is still dispensing snorting judgments upon our modern culture from his 18th-century mansion overlooking the Mississippi. One of the cleverest portions of the book describes his approaching senility. But it never approaches...
Michael F. Garnier, of 474 Summer St., Lynn, a graduate of Lynn Classical High School...
...Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard to which the wise...
...yards hurdles--Converse, H., Clapp, Y., Garnier, O., Allcock...