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ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds...
...presidential candidates in the 1952 election drew a prison term last week. The loser: Vincent Hallinan, 57, high-fee San Francisco lawyer, who got 140,138 votes for President on the ticket of the Communist-backed Progressive Party. The sentence: $50,000 fine and 18 months' imprisonment for evading $36,739 in federal income taxes...
...according to the Government's charges, Hallinan reported only 20% of his law income. Furthermore, he wrote off as business expenses a gymnasium and a swimming pool in his Telegraph Hill dacha. Other deductions included boxing and tumbling lessons for his six sons...
...When Hallinan begins serving his term, he will not be in a totally unfamiliar environment. In 1952 he spent five months in jail on a contempt-of-court sentence incurred as defense counsel in the perjury trial of West Coast Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Wealthy San Francisco Attorney Vincent Hallinan, 56, who picked up 135,007 votes as the Communist-backed Progressive Party's candidate for President last year, was convicted of evading $36,639.24 in income taxes from 1947 through 1950. A man who has never let the pinkness of his politics distract him from the green of his money, Hallinan had reported only 20% of his law income for the four years, had also written off as business deductions such bourgeois items as a gymnasium and swimming pool in his home...