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...mass-produce its fastener wouldn't work. When it got better machines, it found that the fasteners didn't work very well either. Not until 1914 did the company turn out a really successful product. In 1920 it still had only 42 employes. But in 1923 Goodrich gave it a big contract to make zippers for galoshes, and Colonel Walker's company jumped into the big money. It has now outgrown and abandoned its first three plants, has three new ones in Meadville and one in nearby Erie...
DELILAH-Marcus Goodrich-Farrar & Rinehart...
...captain of a ship is like a priest. He is not a mere man, but a symbol of authority. The world of the ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty...
...page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...Marcus Goodrich was famous in New York literary circles ten years ago for his golden tongue. He used to talk this book in evenings of inspired storytelling. In it he put his experience on a destroyer in the last war, heightened by his study of Melville's towering symbolism, Conrad's profuse style, and James's snakelike character analyses. While he talked his book, Goodrich earned his living from advertising and the movies. Now that he has got it on paper, he is a full-fledged, first-rate novelist...