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Strangest feature of The Seven Who Fled is not its gutter transcendentalism but its combination of vivid physical descriptions and wild poetic fantasy. Reading in part like a travel book, it is at the same time peopled with characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Run | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Hubert H. Hauck '38 was victorious in a series of starts with Rheingold beer. Dawson's Pale Ale was easily the fastest in the field, but an inebriate tendency to run into the gutter often prevented it from finishing. Although a slow roller, Pabst invariably took the straightest course and occasionally triumphed when the faster competitors stuck by the wayside. However, interest died out when a strong arm of the law objected to the racket raised by the spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLYMPTON DERBY HELD UP BY INEBRIATE BEER CONTAINERS | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...when boy infants are born simultaneously to Henry the VIII in Windsor Palace and to Pickpocket John Canty in Offal Court. Young Prince Edward thrives at the court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mauch Twins & Mark Twain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

LaGuardia's Kegling Sirs: TIME, for March 22. under Sport, states in connection with the American Bowling Congress, ". . . New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...each event) of which $145,000 will be distributed as prizes. Last week in the 212th Coast Artillery Armory, equipped with banners, grandstands, 28 brand-new alleys and a midway, New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter and Congress was in session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Congress Bowls | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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