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...three sophomores on the team is David Grubb, a relatively lightweight 196-pound guard. The center on the team is senior John Thompson, and the tackles are senior Earle Harder and junior Fred Melges. This center of the line is fast and good, and has been providing Pinch and Martin with wide holes up front...
...DREAM OF KINGS, by Davis Grubb (357 pp.; Scribner; $3.95). Abijah Hornbrook was just a Virginia ne'er-do-well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving...
Charles Laughton (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Readings from Shaw's Don Juan in Hell and from Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter...
...Night of the Hunter (Paul Gregory; United Artists). Davis Grubb's tense 1954 novel about an itinerant psychopathic preacher is a natural for cinemelo-drama. Directed by Actor Charles Laughton, it is a garish, unbelievable but fairly exciting nightmare...
...NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, by Davis Grubb. An exercise in terror in which a psychopathic evangelist and murderer creates a nightmare world for a mother and her two young children. Exceptionally effective for a first novelist...