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...secret right-wing group that called itself St. Michael's Order. The day the first installment appeared Michanek received an anonymous letter suggesting that there was much more information to be had about St. Michael's. The mysterious tipster turned out to be a Swedish Jew, Goran Granquist, 25, who had wormed his way into the order and wanted to tell all. He proceeded to give the pair of reporters enough tantalizing leads to start them on a two-month job of night-and-day sleuthing...
MARIA LIGHT (181 pp.)-Lester Goran -Houghton Mifflin...
...Lester Goran writes about the widow Light, gossiping as if he were sitting on a sidewalk bench, killing time on a summer night. As in his fine first novel. The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, Goran recreates slumside Pittsburgh with superbly detailed tessellations of anecdote. An itchy slut of a woman up on the third floor sings Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with her soldier friends and kicks them all out just before her husband gets back from his war-worker job at midnight. Mrs. Bagley from the other side of the garbage court passes the word that...
...that, Maria Light remains a faceless and not fully realized heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing...
Monroe Engel '42, novelist and literary critic, and Ulf Goran Reidar Printz-Pahlson, Swedish critic and poet, were appointed as lecturers in the University...