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...LAUGH (308 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
After turning out two volumes of excellent short stories (Sermons and Soda-Water, Assembly), Novelist John O'Hara let it be known that his next work was to be something really massive, surpassing even such weighty tomes as Ten North Frederick in length but embodying the crisp authority he seems lately to have lost in the piling up of documentary detail. But plainly, The Big Laugh is not it. For a mercy, it is shorter. For a pity, it is perhaps O'Hara's worst book. In its account of Hollywood in the 1920s...
...nightclubs, and you'll be a second Ronnie Colman." Hubie did. He went so straight that his wife took to adultery out of boredom. And then there was a divorce, and a couple more marriages-all crammed onto the last two pages as O'Hara's chronicle dribbles to a stop. Hubie Ward was the frankest of phonies, but the moral is, or so the author says, that "people know when you are trying to be something you are not." In his short stories, O'Hara can knock chips off the old Hollywood chopping block with...
Still chasing records after 30 years of flying, blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 56, zippered into a blue flying suit and zipped out of New Orleans at the controls of a four-jet Lockheed Jetstar named Scarlett O'Hara. In Hanover, West Germany, 5,120 miles later (average speed: 489 m.p.h.), Cosmetics Queen Cochran, a onetime beauty-parlor odd-jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force...
...disputes. Scarcely anyone besides Josephine Johnson, the author of a sensitive but minor novel entitled Now in November, could understand why Miss Johnson won the 1935 fiction prize in a year that also saw publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. Ernest Hemingway had to wait until 1953 to win his first Pulitzer, with The Old Man and the Sea, having previously missed with two American classics (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms). Some of the Pulitzer drama prizes so enraged Broadway critics...