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...patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...
...VOICES OF GLORY (469 pp.)-Dovis Grubb-Scribner...
...form of the book is much like that of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Novelist Grubb, a fine writer whose best-known book is The Night of the Hunter, has written this long, impressive chronicle with great anger and great love-anger for the stupidity and venality of the powerful, love for the weakness of the weak. In their testimony, the town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells...
...Grubb knows the violent legends of the West Virginia mining country, and he knows also how a small American town of 40 years ago could fester in its isolation. But is it possible, this late in the century, to pay off personal debts of anger and love to such a town, as Sinclair Lewis did in Main Street? The immense force of Grubb's writing is flung against enemies long since weakened or dead-boosterism, Babbittry, ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren. He might as well have written a passionate parable in favor of rural electrification. The Voices of Glory...
...Watchman, by Davis Grubb. A new horror story by the writer who darkened The Night of the Hunter...